David Landsman, Ph.D.

Dr. Landsman's special interest is the merging of results obtained in computational biology analyses with those derived from experiments in biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, and genetics.

A biochemistry graduate of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Dr. Landsman trained in molecular biology as a postdoctoral fellow in the National Cancer Institute under Dr. Michael Bustin at the NIH. He moved to the NCBI/NLM as a Senior Investigator, soon after its inception, where he initiated a computational biology and bioinformatics research program on the analysis of the genes and proteins involved in chromatin structure and in the regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes. He has concentrated on the analysis of both histone and non-histone chromosomal proteins as well as on the analysis of DNA sequences involved in gene regulatory events and chromatin structure. Dr. Landsman's group now analyzes the results of ChIP-seq experiments to achieve these goals.