M Michael GromihaMichael is a frequent invited speaker to local conferences and universities in India and tointernational conferences focused on bioinformatics, computational biology andmolecular biology. He maintains close connections with research and teachingcollegues in India and contributes to international publications including handbooks, encyclopedias and journals. He began his research on Computational MolecularBiophysics in 1989, earning the PhD in BioPhysics from Bharathidasan University, India. He gained his first Post Doctoral experience on DNA bending and protein-DNAinteractions at International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy. He developed databases for proteins and computer simulation of protein-DNAinteractions during his subsequent postdoc at The Institute of Physical and ChemicalResearch (RIKEN), Japan. At AIST he continues to focus on various aspects of proteinbioinformatics. Read More Read Less