My name is Anna Charisi and I come from Greece. I graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in Informatics and Telecommunications. In 2003 I received a master's degree in Signal Processing for Communications and Multimedia and afterwards I attended a second MSc in Bioinformatics from the same university. I have worked for 6 years in the University of Athens as a researcher and I have been actively involved in several national and European funded projects in various scientific areas, varying from web-development, database management and virtual environments to satellite image processing and electronic government tools.

In November 2005 I came to the University of California, Riverside as an exchange visitor in the Database Laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Gunopulos in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in the framework of the "Health-e-Child" project, working in the area of biomedical data mining. In Fall 2006 I began my graduate studies at the University of California, Riverside in the Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics Phd program.

Currently I am working in Dr. Thomas Girke's lab in the area of Drug and Chemoinformatics. We are focusing on developing methods and computational tools for the selection of compounds from combinatorial libraries and the prediction of their bioactivity based on structural and physicochemical properties for QSAR analysis. Since January 2008 I am also a ChemGen IGERT Fellow.

Contact Anna Charisi GGB Graduate Student Thomas Girke's Lab Bioinformatics Core Facility Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB) Department of Botany and Plant Sciences 1007 Noel T. Keen Hall University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 USA Email: acharisi@cs.ucr.edu