Elliott H. Margulies, PhD
National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, DHHS
Bethesda, Maryland

Presentation Title
ENCODE Pilot Project and the Future of Comparative Sequence Analysis

Elliott Margulies, PhD, is Head of the Genome Informatics Section in the Genome Technology Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Elliott's lab utilizes both high-performance computational analyses and laboratory-based high-throughput genomic methods to decipher the genetic information that confers biological function. He received his undergraduate degree in Biotechnology at Rutgers University in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Human Genetics at the University of Michigan in 2001.

During his postdoctoral fellowship he developed bioinformatics approaches for identifying and characterizing regions of the human genome that are evolutionarily conserved across multiple species. Conservation of these sequences across millions of years of evolution is strong evidence they play important roles in biology, such as coding for genes or functioning as regulatory elements. He continues this line of research today, in an effort to decode the "language" of our human genome.