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Reece Hart

PhD biophysics, MS CS from Washington University; Postdoctoral fellow at IBM's T.J. Watson labs; 8 years target discovery and managing research computing at Genentech; now Chief Scientist of the Genome Commons at UC Berkeley.

Headline: Scientist
Work status: Employed Full-Time
Industries: Biotech, Computing
Skills: Business, C/C++, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management, Perl, Software Engineering, Writing
Next step: enable personally-relevant and clinically-relevant interpretations of human genomic data
Interested in: Advising startups, Brainstorming, Consulting opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Giving back, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Starting a company
Schools: University of California System - San Diego, Washington University, Saint Louis

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Curriculum vitae: http://harts.net/reece/cv.pdf
Genome Commons: http://genomecommons.org/

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: The Genome Commons
Position: Chief Scientist
Time period: September 2009 - Present
Description: Responsible for architecture, engineering, and project management of an ambitious
effort to build a shared repository of human variation and associated phenotypes,
tool infrastructure, and scientific methods that facilitate genome-wide annotation.

Employer: Genentech,Inc,
Position: Scientist, Bioinformatics and Protein Engineering (joint appointment) Scientific Manager, Research Computing & Informatics
Time period: June 2001 - September 2009
Description: Designed and implemented Unison (unison-db.org), a comprehensive protein
database that is the basis for feature-based target discovery and protein variant
comparisons; also managed Research's computing strategy, budget and operations.

Employer: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Time period: February 1999 - April 2001
Description: Refined methods for the automated discovery of protein sequence patterns and
demonstrated their use in functional classification, anonymous sequence annotation,
fold-family prediction, and protein structure prediction. Left to join Genentech

Employer: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Position: Research Assistant
Time period: June 1988 - June 1991
Description: Assisted with the isolation a polymorphic marker on, and mapped portions of, human
chromosome 11.Advisor: Glen A. Evans, M.D., Ph.D

EDUCATION

University: Washington University, Saint Louis
Time period: 1991 - 1998
Degree: Molecular Biophysics, PhD

University: Washington University, Saint Louis
Time period: 1991 - 1994
Degree: Computer Science, MSc

University: University of California System - San Diego
Time period: 1986 - 1990
Degree: Molecular Biology, BA

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: Unison: An Integrated Platform for Computational Biology Discovery
Hart RK, Mukhyala K.
Pac Symp Biocomput. (2009). PDF
Functional characterization of the Bcl-2 gene family in the zebrafish.
Kratz E, Eimon PM, Mukhyala K, Stern H, Zha J, Strasser A, Hart R, Ashkenazi A.
Cell Death Differ. 13(10):1631-40 (2006). PubMed PDF
Computational identification and Experimental Validation of Novel Zebrafish Bcl2 Family Members
Mukhyala K, Kratz E, Ashkenazi A, Hart RK
unpublished manuscript (2005). PDF supplementary data
Systematic and Fully Automatic Discovery of Protein Sequence Patterns
Hart RK, Stolovitzky G, Royyuru AK, and Califano A
J Comput Biol. 7(3-4):585-600 (2000). PubMed PDF WWW
Exploring the Similarities Between Potential Smoothing and Simulated Annealing.
Hart RK, Pappu RV, and Ponder JW
J. Comput. Chem. 21(7):531-52 (2000). Abstract PDF
Analysis and Application of Potential Energy Smoothing for Global Optimization
Pappu RV, Hart RK, and Ponder JW
J. Phys. Chem. B 102:9725-9742 (1998). Abstract PDF
Isolation, localization, and physical mapping of a highly polymorphic locus on human chromosome
11q13.
Eubanks JH, Selleri L, Hart R, Rosette C, Evans GA
Genomics 11(3):720-9 (1991 Nov) PubMed
Patents: WO/2007/131133 - METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS RELATING TO ZPA POLYPEPTIDES

INFORMATION

Clubs: Current or past memberships: International Society for Computational Biology, AAAS, Protein
Society, Biophysical Society
Awards: ● Genentech Joint Appointment in Protein Engineering (2002-current)
● Carl and Gerty Cori Graduate Student Fellowship (1995-1996)
● National Library of Medicine grant (LM07049; 1991-1994)
● NIH Training Grant (1994-1998)

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