Nitin Baliga
Editor
Editorial Board
BMC Systems Biology
Japan
Biography
Nitin Baliga serves as Professor at the Institute for Systems Biology, where he was one of the founding members, and currently serves as the Director and Senior Vice President. Dr. Baliga completed his Ph.D. in Microbiology in 2000 at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and then moved to Seattle for postdoctoral training with Dr. Leroy Hood at the Institute for Systems Biology. He leads a cross-disciplinary team of scientists to address complex problems relevant to global health, personalized medicine, energy, and environment. His team uses a systems approach to construct predictive models of cellular and molecular networks within pathogens, cancer cells, and environmental microbes to enable biotechnologies to overcome drug resistance, find new drugs, predict consequence of climate change, and manufacture biorenewables. Dr. Baliga’s work has been published in top international journals including Cell, Science and Nature. He has been invited to the Google SciFoo Camp, and has been profiled by The Scientist, Genome Web, Wired Magazine, Genetic Engineering News, Ars Technica, Xconomy, and Nature Methods, among many others. He serves on scientific advisory boards of numerous academic and industrial organizations, and has been instrumental in research program planning for the NSF and DOE.
Research Interest
Microbiology, Molecu;ar Biology
