CURRICULUM VITAE
| Name: | John Stephen Garavelli |
| Mailing Address: | EMBL Outstation – EBI |
| Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD | |
| UNITED KINGDOM | |
| Phone: | (44)-01223-492529 |
| E-mail: | john.garavelli@ebi.ac.uk |
| Box 3783, Georgetown Station, | |
| Washington, DC 20027 | |
| UNITED STATES | |
| E-mail: | jsgaravelli@earthlink.net |
| Web site: | http://home.earthlink.net/~jsgaravelli/ |
| Education: | Ph. D. Biochemistry |
| Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri | |
| 1969 – 1970, 1972 – 1975 | |
| B. S. Chemistry | |
| Duke University, Durham, North Carolina | |
| 1965 – 1969 | |
| Experience: | EMBL Outstation – European Bioinformatics Institute |
| RESID Database, Principal Scientist/Curator, 2002 – current, | |
| TrEMBL, SWISS-PROT, and Gene-Ontology Consultant 2002 | |
| TrEMBL, SWISS-PROT, Senior Scientific Database Curator 2003 – current | |
| Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK | |
| National Biomedical Research Foundation | |
| Protein Information Resource Associate Director 1997 – 2001 | |
| Senior Research Scientist, PIR Database Coordinator 1989 – 1997 | |
| Washington, DC 20007 | |
| Biomolecular Analysis Facility, College of Pharmacy | |
| Senior Research Specialist and System Manager 1986 – 1988 | |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | |
| Chicago, IL 60680 | |
| The Agouron Institute | |
| Research Associate and Director of Computer Operations 1986 | |
| La Jolla, CA 92037 | |
| NASA Ames Research Center, Extraterrestrial Research Division | |
| National Research Council Senior Research Fellow 1983 – 1985 | |
| Sunnyvale, CA | |
| Texas A&M University, Departments of Chemistry and Plant Sciences | |
| Lecturer and Research Associate 1980 – 1983 | |
| College Station, TX | |
| University of Delaware Honors Program | |
| and Dr. Hal White, Chemistry Department | |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship and Lecturer 1976 – 1980 | |
| Newark, DE | |
| Duke University Marine Laboratory | |
| Dr. Bolling Sullivan | |
| Postdoctoral Fellowship 1975 – 1976 | |
| Beaufort, NC | |
| Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Biochemistry Division | |
| Biological Sciences Assistant, US Army 1971 – 1972 | |
| Washington, DC |
| Grants and Awards: | ||
| 1998 – 2000 | NSF Database Activities in the Biological Sciences Grant | |
| 1989 & 1990 | NSF Instrumentation grants | |
| 1983 – 1985 | NRC Senior Research Fellowship | |
| 1982 & 1983 | NASA - ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship | |
| 1982 – 1983 | NASA Research Associate Award Grant | |
| 1972 – 1975 | NIH Predoctoral Trainee Grant | |
| 1969 – 1970 | NIH Predoctoral Trainee Grant | |
| 1968 – 1969 | NSF Undergraduate Research Training Grant | |
| 1965 – 1968 | Proctor & Gamble Academic Scholarship | |
| 1964 – 1965 | Tennessee Academy of Science Research Grant | |
| Professional Experience: | |
| Bioinformatics expertise in protein post-translational modifications and protein function assignment | |
| Development, maintenance and data quality assurance of biotechnology databases, creating and securing funding for the major proteomic database for protein post-translational modifications | |
| Experience with DEC Alpha UNIX, VAX VMS, and IBM PC Windows computer operating systems | |
| Programming experience with Perl and C++ MFC on IBM PC; C and PASCAL on DEC Alpha; DCL, BASIC, C, FORTRAN, and MACRO on DEC VAX/VMS; PL/1 and APL on IBM | |
| Experience with XML, HTML and TeX | |
| Experience with SQL, Oracle, IMSL, DISSPLA, SAS, INGRES and other software | |
| Experience with AMBER, CHARMM, GAUSSIAN, MM2, SYBYL and RasMol molecular modeling and graphics software | |
| Developmental experience with AIMS/ECEPP, DISCOVER/INSIGHT, and BioMol molecular modeling software | |
| Experience with amino acid analyzer, gas chromatograph, solid and liquid phase protein sequencer, HPLC and GC-MS techniques | |
| Some reading and speaking knowledge of Russian, German and Italian | |
| Service: | |
| President, Philosophical Society of Washington, 1999 | |
| Site review panelist for the National Cancer Institute | |
| Grant review panelist for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health National Center for Research Resources, and the Civilian Research and Development Foundation | |
| Reviewer for professional journals: Applied Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, Entropy, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Physical Review | |
| US Army Commendations, February 1971 and June 1971 | |
| Walter Reed Outstanding Serviceman Award, July 1971 | |
| National Defense Service Medal, 1971 | |
| Good Conduct Medal, 1972 | |
| Democratic Party Nominee to Tennessee House of Representatives from Shelby County, November 1970 | |
| Current Associations: | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science, since 1976 | |
| American Chemical Society, since 1966 | |
| International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, since 1983 | |
| International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, since 1986 | |
| Philosophical Society of Washington, 1971 – 1972, since 1990 | |
| Protein Society, since 1992 | |
| Former Associations: | |
| American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology | |
| Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology | |
| Molecular Graphics Society | |
| TeX Users Group | |
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