Doctoral advisors Winston Hide | ||
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Born March 24, 1975 (age 41) ( 1975-03-24 ) Institutions Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Thesis The development and application of informatics-based systems for the analysis of the human transcriptome (2003) Alma maters University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape Fields Bioinformatics, Computational biology Institution Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Notable awards L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science (2004), Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2010) | ||
Janet Kelso is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
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Education
Kelso studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, gaining her BSc in 1997 and her MSc in 2000. She received her PhD in bioinformatics in 2003, from the University of the Western Cape, mentored by Winston Hide.
Work and research
Kelso has carried out research in comparative primate genomics and has contributed to the Neanderthal, bonobo and orangutan genome projects. Since 2004, she has been Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Since 2013, she has been co-Executive Editor of Bioinformatics.
Awards and honors
Kelso won a L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science Fellowship in 2004. With her co-authors, she was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the most outstanding paper in Science in 2010: this paper published the draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome. Kelso served as Vice President of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) from 2011-2013 and in 2016 was elected to serve another 3-year term as Vice President, starting in January 2017. She was also elected as a Fellow of the ISCB in 2016.