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CURRICULUM VITAE : ERIK ANTHONY SCHULTES

schultes@hedgehogresearch.info



Biography



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