Michael Galperin MS, PhD

Michael Y. Galperin graduated from the MV Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) School of Biology with a Diploma in Biochemistry in 1979 and received a PhD in Microbiology & Biochemistry from the same University in 1987. In 1991, moved to the United States. After postdoctoral stints at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, joined the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, as a GenBank Fellow.

In 1999, Galperin was appointed a Staff Scientist at the NCBI's Computational Biology Branch, and in 2012, was promoted to Lead Scientist. Current research interests include biochemical evolution and genomics of bacterial metabolic and signaling pathways, particularly two-component and c-di-GMP-mediated signaling. In 2008-2016, served as an Executive Editor of the Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue; currently an Editor of the Journal of Bacteriology and of the Genomics Updates section in Environmental Microbiology.