David Schneider
Professor
Environmental Science
University of Saskatchewan
Canada
Biography
Professor David Schneider joins the U of S from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the US Department of Agriculture, where he was computational biologist for the Agricultural Research Service. After completing a degree in biochemistry at the University of Minnesota and doing graduate work in biophysical chemistry at Cornell University, Schneider joined the first supercomputing group at IBM in New York. He was then recruited to the Center for Supercomputing Research at the University of Illinois, and later directed the Institute of Computational Genomics at Cornell. In 2007, Schneider became the very first computational biologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service.
Research Interest
Mathematical, statistical and computational modeling of complex biological and biophysical systems — systems biology and functional genomics; biological sequence analysis; comparative genomics of bacteria; structure-function relations in plant roots; genotype-phenotype relations in crop plants; dynamics of large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases.
