Patricia Babbitt

Patricia Babbitt
Born	Patricia Clement Babbitt
Education	University of California, San Francisco (PhD)
Awards	ISCB Fellow (2018)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics[2] Computational biology[2]
Institutions	University of California, San Francisco
Thesis	Sequence determination, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of creatine kinase (1988)
Doctoral advisor	George L. Kenyon[3] Irwin Kuntz[3]
Website	profiles.ucsf.edu/patricia.babbitt

Patricia Clement Babbitt is a Professor and Principal Investigator (PI) in the school of pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).^{[2][4][5][6][7][8]}

Education

Patricia Babbitt earned a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry in 1988 from the University of California, San Francisco^[3][4] for research supervised by George L. Kenyon and Irwin Kuntz.^[3]

Career and research

Babbitt serves as the director of the UCSF bioinformatics and medical informatics graduate program.^{[citation needed]} She also serves on the advisory boards for the UniProt, InterPro^[9] and MetaCyc databases, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientific review board, and as a deputy editor for PLOS Computational Biology.^[10] Her research interests include bioinformatics and computational biology.^[2][8][11]

Awards and honors

Babbitt was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2018 for “outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics”.^[1]

References

1. Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
2. Patricia Babbitt publications indexed by Google Scholar
3. Babbit, Patricia Clement (1988). Sequence determination, expression, and site-directed mutagenesis of creatine kinase (PhD thesis). University of California, San Francisco. OCLC 19528718. ProQuest 303714424. (subscription required)
4. "Patricia Babbitt UCSF Profile". profiles.ucsf.edu.
5. "Babbitt Lab Website". babbittlab.ucsf.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2018-03-14.
6. Gerlt, John A.; Babbitt, Patricia C. (2001). "Divergent Evolution of Enzymatic Function: Mechanistically Diverse Superfamilies and Functionally Distinct Suprafamilies". Annual Review of Biochemistry. 70 (1): 209–246. doi:10.1146/annurev.biochem.70.1.209. ISSN 0066-4154. PMID 11395407.
7. Radivojac, Predrag; Clark, Wyatt T; Oron, Tal Ronnen; Schnoes, Alexandra M; Wittkop, Tobias; Sokolov, Artem; Graim, Kiley; Funk, Christopher; Verspoor, Karin; Ben-Hur, Asa; Pandey, Gaurav; Yunes, Jeffrey M; Talwalkar, Ameet S; et al. (2013). "A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction". Nature Methods. 10 (3): 221–227. doi:10.1038/nmeth.2340. ISSN 1548-7091. PMC 3584181. PMID 23353650.
8. Patricia Babbitt publications from Europe PubMed Central
9. Finn, Robert D.; Attwood, Teresa K.; Babbitt, Patricia C.; Bateman, Alex; Bork, Peer; Bridge, Alan J.; Chang, Hsin-Yu; Dosztányi, Zsuzsanna; El-Gebali, Sara; Fraser, Matthew; Gough, Julian; Haft, David; Holliday, Gemma L.; Huang, Hongzhan; Huang, Xiaosong; Letunic, Ivica; Lopez, Rodrigo; Lu, Shennan; Marchler-Bauer, Aron; Mi, Huaiyu; Mistry, Jaina; Natale, Darren A.; Necci, Marco; Nuka, Gift; Orengo, Christine A.; Park, Youngmi; Pesseat, Sebastien; Piovesan, Damiano; Potter, Simon C.; Rawlings, Neil D.; Redaschi, Nicole; Richardson, Lorna; Rivoire, Catherine; Sangrador-Vegas, Amaia; Sigrist, Christian; Sillitoe, Ian; Smithers, Ben; Squizzato, Silvano; Sutton, Granger; Thanki, Narmada; Thomas, Paul D; Tosatto, Silvio C. E.; Wu, Cathy H.; Xenarios, Ioannis; Yeh, Lai-Su; Young, Siew-Yit; Mitchell, Alex L. (2017). "InterPro in 2017—beyond protein family and domain annotations". Nucleic Acids Research. 45 (D1): D190 – D199. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw1107. ISSN 0305-1048. PMC 5210578. PMID 27899635.
10. "CMNS Distinguished Woman Faculty Lecture". umd.edu. University of Maryland.
11. Patricia Babbitt at DBLP Bibliography Server