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Mark Ellisman

Chief Technology Officer and Co-PI, CAMERA; Professor of Neurosciences and Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego

Mark H. Ellisman is a professor of Neurosciences and Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is an expert in the development and application of network and information technologies to advance the biological sciences.

In addition to being the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Principal Investigator (PI) on the CAMERA grant, Ellisman is the PI and founding director of several widely used research resources:

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR)
  • NIH Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN); and
  • UCSD Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS).

Ellisman’s telemicroscopy research initiative was instrumental in the evolution of cyberinfrastructure, i.e., the use of advanced networks to connect computational, data storage, visualization, and software tools with rare research assets to address global research priorities. His efforts to build community resources using emerging capabilities in information technologies are being applied to CAMERA and a new neuroscience project to create an electronic “Whole Brain Catalog.”

In addition to being a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Ellisman has received numerous awards including a Jacob Javits award from the NIH and the Creativity Award from the NSF. He has been appointed scientific advisor to many national and international organizations, and is frequently invited to lecture on neuroscience and bioinformatics topics.