Director Emeritus

Gene Myers

Founding Director 2012 – 2024

Gene Myers was born in 1953. In 2012, he joined the scientific community in Dresden as the Founding Director of the Center for Systems Biology (CSBD) and Director at the MPI-CBG. Previously, he had been a group leader at the HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) since its inception in 2005. Gene came to the JFRC from UC Berkeley where he was on the faculty of Computer Science from 2003 to 2005. He was formerly Vice President of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics for four years. Prior to that Gene was on the faculty of the University of Arizona for 17 years and he received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Colorado in 1981. He was voted the most influential in bioinformatics in 2001 by Genome Technology Magazine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003. In 2004, Gene Myers won the International Max Planck Research Prize, was inducted into Leopoldina, the German Academy of Science, in 2006, and was awarded an honarary doctorate at ETH, Zurich. He became Director Emeritus in 2022.

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Former Members

Gene Myers

    

CSBD Founding Director 2012 – 2024

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Florian Jug

Human Technopole

CSBD Member 2017 – 2021

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CSBD Member 2014 – 2023

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CSBD Member 2017 – 2022

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Christoph Weber

University of Augsburg

CSBD Member 2018 – 2021

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Vasily Zaburdaev

FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

CSBD Member 2014 – 2019

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Former Affiliates

CSBD Affiliate 2017 – 2020

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CSBD Affiliate 2014 – 2017

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Carsten Rother

University Heidelberg

CSBD Affiliate 2015 – 2018

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Guillaume Salbreux

University of Geneva

CSBD Affiliate 2015 – 2018

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Christoph Weber

Augsburg University

CSBD Affiliate 2021 – 2023

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In Memoriam

Suzanne Eaton

Suzanne Eaton was a research group leader at the MPI-CBG and the CSBD until July 2019. Her life came to a tragic end in Crete on July 2, 2019.

Statements from family, friends, and colleagues are collected on our “Remembering Suzanne Eaton” page