University Of Tennessee - 9:15 AM Monday

“Systems Genetics: Tools and Techniques to Connect Genomes
with Phenomes” 

Robert (Rob) W. Williams received a BA in neuroscience from UC Santa Cruz (1975) and a Ph.D. in physiology at UC Davis with Leo M Chalupa (1983). He did postdoctoral work in developmental neurobiology at Yale with Pasko Rakic and moved to the University of Tennessee in 1989. He is a professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Director of the Center for Translational Genomics, and holds the Dunavant professorship in developmental genetics in the Department of Pediatrics. Williams is a past president of the Society for Behavioural and Neural Genetics Society and founding director of the Complex Trait Consortium.

He is a member of the International Committee on Standardized Genetic Nomenclature for Mice and Chair of the Society for Neuroscience Neuroinformatics Committee. He is editor-in-chief of Frontiers in Neurogenomics, and he serves on the editorial boards of Genes, Brain & Behavior, Neuroinformatics, Alcohol, Molecular Vision, European Journal of Anatomy, Alcohol, BiomedCentral Neuroscience, the Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration, and Behavior Genetics. One of Williams' more notable recent contributions is in the field of systems biology. He and his research group have built GeneNetwork, an online resource and data analysis toolset that is used widely by the systems genetics community.

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