David Landsman

David Landsman is the Chief of the Computational Biology Branch for the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has since become an international leader in the field now known as bioinformatics: the management, analysis, and advance of extensive biological and genetics information with computer databasing and modeling technologies.

In his role at the NIH, Landsman's research interests include the structure and function of interphase chromatin and nuclei; molecular and cellular interactions controlling gene expression in eukaryotes; recognition and modelling of functional domains in proteins; database design for data aboutbiology; and computational tools for molecular biology.

"Biologists of all types are faced with a rapidly increasing volume of data which is presented in a variety of forms. The challenge is to teach students to utilize this information in order to understand, formulate, and test hypotheses using these huge masses of data." Landsman teaches Computers in Molecular Biology.

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