David Landsman, PhD

Chief,Computational Biology Branch
Bioinformatics of Chromatin Structure Group
NCBI, NLM, NIH

Research Interests

• Structure and function of nucleosomes, interphase chromatin and nuclei
• Molecular and cellular interactions controlling gene expression in eukaryotes
• Recognition and modeling of functional domains in proteins
• Database design for biological data
• Computational tools for molecular biology

Publications in PubMed

Additional Resources

• Histone Sequence Database – HistoneDB 2.0. Draizen EJ, Shaytan AK, Mariño-Ramírez L, Talbert PB, Landsman D, Panchenko AR
• Human HMG processed pseudogenes or retroposed copies of human HMG genes. Strichman-Almashanu and Landsman (2003)
• The High Mobility Group (HMG) Chromosomal Proteins Nomenclature Home Page. Baxevanis and Landsman (2001)
• Bioinformatics and the Developing World. Pongor and Landsman (2000)
• Candidate regulatory sequence for cell cycle-dependent transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Wolfsberg, Gabrielian, Campbell, Cho, Spouge, and Landsman (1999)
• AT-hook motifs identified in a wide variety of DNA-binding proteins. (ftp data) Aravind and Landsman (1998)
• The HMG-1 box protein family. Baxevanis and Landsman (1995)

Research Group

• Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez
• Roberto Vera Alvarez
• Iris Zhou

Links

• HMG Chromosomal Proteins Nomenclature
• Bioinformatics and the Developing World
• Histone Sequence Database
• Retroposed Copies of HMG Genes

Group Alumni

• Daniel Achinko
• John Anderson
• Andreas Baxevanis
• Alex Bolshoy
• Jan Fassler
• Wataru Fujibuchi
• Andrei D. Gabrielian
• Loren Hansen
• Gavin Kanga
• Natalie Kantz
• Kevin Levine
• Wing Chi "Abby" Ngau
• Liora Strichman-Almashanu
• Steven Sullivan
• Suzanne Szak
• Patrick Taylor
• Maarten van den Bosch
• Arjan van der Velde
• Tyra Wolfsberg