CURRICULUM VITAE

May 2003

Edward N. Trifonov

Born March 31, 1937 (Leningrad, USSR).

Education:

1961 M.Sc. Moscow Physico-Technical Institute.

Biophysics.

1970 Ph.D. Moscow Physico-Technical Institute.

Molecular Biophysics.

Working experience:

1961-1964 Research, Moscow Physico-Technical Institute.

1965-1975 Research, Biological Department, I. Kurchatov

Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow.

1976-1991 Associate Professor, Dept. of Polymer Research, and

1992-2002 Professor, Department of Structural Biology,

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

1992-1995 Head, Center for Genome Structure and Evolution,

Institute of Molecular Medical Sciences, Palo Alto,

USA (visiting position).

2002- Head, Genome Diversity Center, Institute of Evolution,

University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Teaching and invited series of lectures:

1970-1975 Moscow Physico-Technical Institute.

1981-2000 The Feinberg Graduate School (The Weizmann Institute

of Science).

1987 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

1988 University of Wuerzburg, FRG

1988-1992 International Summer School for talented high school

students (Long Island, USA).

1989 Research Computer Center of Academy, Pushchino, USSR

1990 Yale University, New Haven, USA

1990 L. Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo

Alto, USA

1992, 95, 97 Bar-Ilan University (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

1993, 95 The Fromm Institute of Lifelong Learning, University

of San Francisco (San Francisco, USA).

1999 Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republik).

1999 Lomonosov Moscow State University.

2000 University Paris Sud, Orsay

2000 Murdoch University, Australia

2002- University of Haifa

Courses:

1970-1975 Physical chemistry of proteins and nucleic

acids, for undergraduate students.

1974 Grammar of genetic language, for undergraduate and

graduate students.

1981 Physical chemistry and molecular biology of nucleic

acids, for graduate students.

1984 New chapters in nucleic acids research, for

graduate students.

1988-1992 Molecular biology of the gene, for talented high

school students.

1990 Molecular and sequence structure of nucleic

acids, for graduate students.

1992, 96, 97 Molecular and sequence structure of genomes, for

graduate students.

1993, 95 Talking to DNA, for retirees.

1995 Molecular evolution, for graduate students.

1998-2000 Genetic codes, for graduate students

2002 Early molecular evolution, for graduate students

Instruction:

1965- Supervisor of 14 master and 22 doctoral theses

in Molecular Biophysics.

Invited lectures at scientific meetings : over 100

Editorial and advisory boards:

1970-1975 Editor, Microbiology and Biochemistry Sections of

Russian "Biological Abstracts".

1988-1995 Editor, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and

Dynamics.

1993- Editorial board and Associate Editor, Journal of

Molecular Evolution.

1993 Advisory board of the Institute of Virus Evolution

and the Environment (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

1994- Academic Council of the College of Judea and Samaria

(Kedumim-Ariel, Israel).

1997- Editorial Board of Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology.

Membership in learned societies:

1970 USSR Biochemical Society

1987 The Israel National Committee for CODATA

1993 International Society of Molecular Evolution

1997 International Society of Gene Therapy and Molecular

Biology.

Honors:

1969 I. Kurchatov Prize for Young Scientists

1971 I. Kurchatov Prize for Basic Research

1982 J. Kleeman Professor of Molecular Biophysics

1999 Adjunct Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University

2003 The Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecture at the 2003 RECOMB meeting, Berlin

The list of publications includes over 140 titles.