Christian SchonbachChristian Schönbach is Professor in the Department of Biology, School of Science & Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan and Visiting Professor, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan, since 2013. He was awarde Dr. rer. nat. (Genetics) by Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen (1993), after which he undertook post-doctoral training, at the Department of Tumor Biology, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo. Since then, he has held research positions in Japan and Singapore, in academia, research institutes as well as industry, including Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore and RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama, Japan, prior to becoming Professor, Department of Biology, School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan (2009-2013). He has served as Vice President Conferences of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) (2010-present). His research interests include bioinformatics and genomics, data integration and biological knowledge discovery from databases; immunoinformatics and viral immunology; novel peroxisome targeting signal-containing proteins and their role in lipid metabolic/peroxisomal disease pathways; HIV escape mutants, TCR repertoire; bioinformatics transcriptional regulation of the host cell response and immunopathogenesis. His publications have been cited over 7500 times. He has authored and edited several books in Immunoinformatics and Immunomics, as well as contributed to the Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, published by Springer in 2013. Read More Read Less