David Adelson

David Adelson is a professor of bioinformatics and computational genetics and is chair of Zhendong pharmaceutical projects of Molecular Traditional Chinese Medicine in the School of Molecular and Biomedical Science at the University of Adelaide. Prof. Adelson is currently the deputy dean (International) in the Faculty of Sciences and director of Zhendong Centre of Molecular Traditional Chinese Medicine. The philosophy of Zhendong Centre is that complex molecular effects of TCM preparations will provide a molecular basis for understanding the mode of action of TCM and support integration into Western medicine. At present, Systems Biology is a rapidly growing field because it has become apparent that single gene’s or protein’s effects cannot explain or account for complex disease behavior at cellular, tissue or whole body scales. Prof. Adelson’s current research also focuses on the computational analysis of repetition, which is about the so called Junk DNA/Non encoding DNA in animals, in order to understand evolutionary changes in DNA from a large scale. He has presided over the analysis of repetitive DNA of horse and cow genome. His lab is currently working on repetitive DNA analyses of elephant, echidna and pogona vitticeps.