Dong Xu, University of Missouri

Dong Xu is Chair of Computer Science Department, with appointments in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign in 1995 and did two-year postdoctoral work at the US National Cancer Institute. He was a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory until 2003 before joining University of Missouri . Over the past fifteen years, he has published more than 120 scientific papers. Professor Dong Xu is a recipient of the year 2001 R&D 100 award, a prestigious international award sponsored by Research & Development magazine that honors the 100 most significant new technical products of the previous year, for developing "Protein Structure Prediction and Evaluation Computer Toolkit (PROSPECT)". He also received 2003 Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer from The Federal Laboratory Consortium for developing gene expression analysis package EXCAVATOR. He has received research grants from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Health, Ceres Inc., and Monsanto Research Funds. He is a member of the Editorial Board for “Current Protein and Peptide Science” and “Applied and Environmental Microbiology”.

Tentative Title: A New Framework of Applying Compatible Structural Fragments for Protein Structure Prediction