
Professor Lonnie R. Welch is the Stuckey Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at ĢƵ University, a member of the Graduate Faculties of the Biomedical Engineering Program and of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory at ĢƵ University, and the founder and Chair of the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (an official conference of the International Society on Computational Biology). His research has been sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute, the ĢƵ Plant Biotechnology Consortium, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the ĢƵ Board of Regents. He is the principal investigator of the $9M Bioinformatics Program of the ĢƵ Board of Regents. Dr. Welch is founder and co-chair of the ISMB Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics for Regulatory Genomics (BioRegSIG).