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The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) honors a leader in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics each year with the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award. This award is the highest honor conferred by ISCB to a scientist who is recognized for significant research, education, and service contributions. Bonnie Berger, Simons Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the 2019 recipient of the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award. She is receiving her award and presenting a keynote address at the 2019 Joint International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology in Basel, Switzerland on July 21-25, 2019.

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  • The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) honors a leader in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics each year with the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award. This award is the highest honor conferred by ISCB to a scientist who is recognized for significant research, education, and service contributions

  • In 1990, she completed her PhD in computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the mentorship of Silvio Micali

  • Berger remained at MIT and stumbled upon computational biology quite unexpectedly

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Abstract The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) honors a leader in the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics each year with the Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award.

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