Manolis Kellis

Manolis Kellis
Manolis Kellis
	Manolis Kellis at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in Orlando Florida on October 19, 2017
Born	Manolis Kamvysellis; Greek: Μανώλης Καμβυσέλλης; March 13, 1977; Athens, Greece
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Known for	ENCODE
Awards	Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2010); NSF CAREER Award (2007); Sloan Research Fellowship (2008);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computational genomics; Epigenomics; Comparative Genomics;
Thesis	Computational Comparative Genomics: Genes, Regulation, Evolution. (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Eric Lander; Bonnie Berger;
Website	compbio.mit.edu

Manolis Kellis (Greek: Μανώλης Καμβυσέλλης; born 1977) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the area of Computational Biology and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is the head of the Computational Biology Group at MIT and is a Principal Investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT.

Kellis is known for his contributions to genomics, human genetics, epigenomics, gene regulation, genome evolution, disease mechanism, and single-cell genomics. He co-led the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project effort to create a comprehensive map of the human epigenome, the comparative analysis of 29 mammals to create a comprehensive map of conserved elements in the human genome, the ENCODE, GENCODE, and modENCODE projects to characterize the genes, non-coding elements, and circuits of the human genome and model organisms. A major focus of his work is understanding the effects of genetic variations on human disease, with contributions to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and cancer.

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