Function SIG Meetings:

Function-SIG 2018 will be held on July 7, 2018 as part of ISMB/ECCB 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Travel Fellowships

Function SIG NSF Travel fellowships for students and postdocs are available. You must be an accepted presenter (talk or poster) at the Function SIG 2018.

Travel fellowship Application deadline: May 14, 2018.
Notification of fellowship awardees: May 20, 2018

Function-SIG 2018 Keynote Speakers

Kimberly Reynolds
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Lab Website
Talk Title: Using evolutionary information to understand cellular systems
Speaker Bio: Kim Reynolds is an Assistant Professor in the Green Center for Systems Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, with a secondary appointment in Biophysics. She is a Moore Investigator in Data-Driven Discovery. Prior to joining UT Southwestern, she completed a PhD in biophysics at UC Berkeley with Dr. Tracy Handel, where she studied the computational design of protein-protein interfaces. As a postdoctoral researcher, she developed a model for the evolution of new allosteric regulation and experimentally tested the idea of allosteric “hot spots” with Dr. Rama Ranganathan (at UT Southwestern). Her laboratory uses statistical analyses of co-evolution across genomes to map functional constraints within and between proteins. These statistical models are then tested for their ability to explain, predict and design cellular behaviors in the lab.