EXPERIENCE
2010- Research Scientist, Human Genetics Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, under auspices of the Concept Web Alliance and The Melton Foundation
2009-2010 Adjunct Research Professor, Department of Computer Science, Duke University
2008- Co-founder & Chief Science Officer, Sequenomics, LLC
2005- Founder, Hedgehog Research, private consulting
1997-2005 Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT
2003-2004 Digital video editing, Powderhouse Productions
1997-1999 Whitehead Institute's Task Force on Genetic Testing, Privacy, and Public Policy
1995-1996 Visiting Scholar, Duke University Medical Center
1995 Researcher in Residence, Santa Fe Institute
1992-1994 Teaching Associate, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
1991 Santa Fe Institute Science Board Undergraduate Intern
1988 Teaching Staff, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
TRAINING
2006 NKS Summer School, Brown University, Providence
2005 Final Cut Pro HD, Apple Certified Training, Media Power
2004 The Daniel Pennock Democracy School, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
2002-2003 Digital video production & non-linear editing, Boston Film and Video Foundation
1992-1997 PhD, Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA
1994 Summer School in Molecular & Cell Biology, NATO Advanced Study Institute,
Spetsai, Greece
1994 Physiology Summer School, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
1985-1992 BS, Biological Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2011 Research award from the Templeton Foundation, Building an Atlas of Complexity
2008 Research award from the Foundational Questions Institute, Boston: Experimentally Probing the Origins of Macromolecular Structure
2000-2002 Charles A. King Trust Research Fellowship, The Medical Foundation, Boston: Quantifying the Intrinsic Structural Properties of RNA
1998-2000 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Molecular Evolution, National Science Foundation & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
1995 Conference award to support a scientific meeting on Biomolecular Engineering, California Coordinating Committee on Nonlinear Science
1992-1994 Fellow, Center for the Study of the Evolution and Origin of Life, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA
PUBLICATIONS
't Hoen PAC etal (submitted) Next Generation Sequencing of Phage Display Peptide Libraries Enables Fast Selection of True and False Positive Peptide Sequences
LaBean TH, Butt TR, Kauffman SA, Schultes EA (2011) Protein Folding Absent Selection Genes, 2: 608-626.
Mons B etal (2011) The Value of Data. Nature Genetics, 43: 281-283.
Schultes EA, Hraber PT, LaBean TH (2009) No Molecule is an Island: Molecular Evolution and the Study of Sequence Space, in Algorithmic Bioprocesses, eds Condon A, Harel D, Kok JN, Salomaa A, & Winfree E (Springer, New York).
Bishop M, Thiem C, Renz T, Schultes EA, Chandran H, Reif JH (2009) Structural Optimization of Dendritic DNA Self-Assembly, FNANO 2009, pp. 147-148 (Sciencetechnica, Snowbird, Utah).
LaBean TH, Shetty G, Yin P, Schultes EA, Chandran H, Reif JH (2009) A Dendritic DNA Nanostructure for Target DNA Detection, FNANO 2009, pp. 60-61 (Sciencetechnica, Snowbird, Utah).
LaBean TH, Shetty G, Yin P, Schultes EA, Chandran H, Reif JH (2009) Target DNA Detection by Strand Displacement and Deoxyribozymogen Amplification, FNANO 2009, pp. 82-83 (Sciencetechnica, Snowbird, Utah).
Schultes EA, Spasic A, Mohanty U, Bartel DP (2005) Compact and ordered collapse in randomly generated RNA sequences. Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 12: 1130-1136. [On-line supplementary information]
Schultes EA & Bartel DP (2000) One sequence, two ribozymes: implications for the emergence of new ribozyme folds. Science 289: 448-452. [On-line supplementary information]
Schultes EA (2000) Presidential Politics: Constrained by Complexity. Science 290: 933.
Schultes E, Hraber PT, LaBean TH (1999) A parameterization of RNA sequence space. Complexity, 4: 61-71.
Schultes EA, Hraber PT, LaBean TH (1999) Estimating the contributions of selection and self-organization in RNA secondary structures. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 49: 76-83.
Schultes E, Hraber PT, LaBean TH (1997) Global similarities in nucleotide base composition among disparate functional classes of single-stranded RNA imply adaptive evolutionary convergence. RNA, 3: 792-806.
Schultes E (1993) An instance of a replicator. In Artificial Life III, ed CG Langton, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume XVI, Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, California, p 1.
WEB SITES
Nanopub: a beginner's guide to datapublishing
US PATENTS
John H Reif, Peng Yin, Thomas H LaBean, Geetha Shetty, Erik A Schultes, Analyte Detection Using Autocatalytic Chain Reactions. US patent application filed July 10, 2007. Publication date, April 2, 2009.
John H Reif, Thomas H LaBean, Erik A Schultes, Autonomous In Vitro Evolution, US patent application filed 2008.
SELECT INVITED LECTURES
2009 Visualization Technology Group, Duke
2009 Concept Web Symposium, Ledien University, The Netherlands
2006 NKS 2006, Washington D.C.
2004 Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder
2003 Symposium in the Division of Biological Physics, Meeting of the American Physical Society, Austin
2002 Workshop: The Evolvability and Robustness of Molecules & Microbes, Santa Fe Institute
2001 Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School, Central European University, Budapest
1999 4th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society, University of Edinburgh
FEATURED WORK
Siegfried T (2003) Language of Life May Be Spelled Out with RNA, The Dallas Morning News, March 10.
Schewe P et al (2003) The Search for an RNA "Eve", Physics News Update, 627 (Item #2).
Alberts et al (2002) Molecular Biology of the Cell, Fourth Edition, Garland Science, New York, pp. 368-370.
Rawls R (2000) Versatile RNA Folds into Two Ribozymes, Chemical & Engineering News, 78: 11-12.
Joyce F (2000) Ribozyme Evolution at the Crossroads, Science 289: 401-402.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2010- Member, Society for Scientific Exploration
2009- Member, BioSemantics Group
2009- Founding Signatory, Concept Web Alliance
2002- Associate Member, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1995- Elected Member, Diversity Biotechnology Consortium
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