Biography
Bonnie Berger is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and head of the Computation and Biology group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Professor Berger is also a member of the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (PMMB), MIT's Computer Science and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi), as well as an affiliated member of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST). Her major areas of research have been in applying mathematical and computational techniques to problems in molecular biology. In particular, the focus of her research has been on the following three core problem areas: comparative genomics, protein structural motif recognition and discovery, and molecular self-assembly and mis-assembly. Professor Berger has co-authored over fifty scholarly research articles and has been invited to present at conferences in fields ranging from randomized algorithms and graph theory to computational molecular biology. She is an editor for Journal of Discrete Applied Math and Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Professor Berger has won numerous awards and honors including a National Science Foundation career award, a Radcliffe Bunting Institute Science Scholarship, and the Biophysical Society's Dayoff Award for research among others. In 1999 Professor Berger was named one of Technology Review Magazine's first TR100 for being a top young innovator of the twenty-first century. In 2004 she was elected as a Fellow of the ACM.
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Publications
- W. Hobbs, C.E. Jesurum, V. Pulim, and B. Berger. "Topological Modeling of Cascade Amorphization in Network Structures Using Local Rules.'' Material Science and Engineering A, no. 1-2 (Sept.1998):16-29.
- S. Batzoglou, B. Berger, D.J. Kleitman, E.S. Lander, and L. Pachter. "Recent Developments in computational Gene Recognition.'' Documenta Mathematica: J. DMV, (1998), Extra Volume ICM I, 649-658.
- R.S. Schwartz, P.E. Prevelige, P.W. Shor, and B. Berger. "Local Rules Simulation of the Kinetics of Virus Capsid Self-Assembly.'' Biophysical Journal 75, no.1 (Dec.1998): 2626--2636.
- B. Berger, G. Hoest, J. Paulson, and P.W. Shor. "On the Structure of the Scaffolding Core of Bacteriophage T4.'' J. of Computational Biology (Spring 1999):
Awards- ACM: Fellow
- Technology Review: 100 Brilliant Young Innovators
- Biophysical Society: Dayoff Award
- 8th Int. Conf. on Radiation Effects in Insulators (with Hobbs Sreeram Jesurum).: Best Paper Award (Image and Multimedimensional Signal
- MIT: George M. Sprowles Prize
- NSF: Career Award
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