Responsibilities
Damian Gessler joined iPlant in 2009. He is responsible for design and expertise in semantic web architecture for infrastructual high-throughput data and service integration.
Research Expertise
Damian's research interests and expertise include:
- Informatics: Biological data and service integration, with an emphasis in semantic web technologies.
- Biological: Evolution and population genetics, especially as it pertains to the evolution of eukaryotic recombination (meiosis) and mutation accumulation.
- Technical emphasis in simulations and computational modeling.
Professional Experience
- National Center for Genome Resources
1999-2009
Program Lead
Selected Publications
- Del Vescovo C, Gessler D, Klinov P, Parsia B, Sattler U, Schneider T, Winget A (2011). Decomposition and Modular Structure of BioPortal Ontologies. In Proceedings of International Semantic Web Conference (1) pp. 130-145. (PDF)
- Gessler DDG, Schiltz GS, May GD, Avraham S, Town CD, Grant D, Nelson RT (2009) SSWAP: A Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol for semantic web services. BMC Bioinformatics 10:309. PMID: 19775460.
- Gessler D, Dye C, Farmer P, Murray M, Navin T, Reves R, Shinnick T, Small PM, Yates T, Simpson G. (2006) A National Tuberculosis Archive. Science. 311(5765):1245-6. PMID: 16513968.
- Gessler DDG and Xu S (2000). Meiosis and the evolution of recombination at low mutation rates. Genetics 156 449-456. PMID: 10978307.
- Gessler DDG (1995) The constraints of finite size in asexual populations and the rate of the ratchet. Genetical Research 66:241-253. PMID: 16553995.
Education
- University of California, Santa Cruz, Ph.D. Theoretical Evolution and Population Genetics, 1995
- Beloit College, WI, B.S. Biology and Mathematics, 1986
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