CURRICULUM VITAE
Robert F. Murphy
Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology
Professor of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering and Machine LearningCarnegie Mellon
University Telephone: 412-***-****
5000 Forbes Avenue FAX: 412-***-****
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Email: ******@***.***
EDUCATION
Columbia University, New York, B.A., 1974, Biochemistry.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, Ph.D., 1980, Biochemistry (Dr. James
Bonner)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon U., 2007
-
Director (Department Head), Ray and Stephanie Lane Center for Computational Biology,
Carnegie Mellon U. 2007-
Professor of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon U., 2006-
Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon U., 2003-
Honorary Professor of Biology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, 2011-
External Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany 2008-
Founding Director, Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, 2005-2009
Founding Director, Center for Bioimage Informatics, Carnegie Mellon U., 2004-2008
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 1989-2003
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (by courtesy), 2002-2003
Voting Faculty Member, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery, 2002-2006
Director, Merck Computational Biology and Chemistry Program, 1999-2004
Director, Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Dept. Biological Sciences, 1996-2004
Member,
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 1994-present
.
Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998-2002
Faculty Member and Program Leader for Undergraduate and Graduate Education, Center for
Light Microscope Imaging and Biotechnology, 1991-2002
.
Undergraduate Research Advisor, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon Univ., 1996
-
2000
Director, Beckman Scholars Program at Carnegie Mellon University, 1998-1999
Visiting Associate Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, 1994
.
Associate Member, Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, 1986-1993.
Founding Member, Center for Fluorescence Research in Biomedical Sciences, 1983-1991
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 1983-1989
Consultant, Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems, 1982-1992
.
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Columbia University, Dr. Charles Cantor, Departments of
Chemistry and Human Genetics, 1979-1983
.
HONORS
Earle C. Anthony Fellowship, Caltech, 1974
Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Foundation Fellowship, 1979
Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1984
Fellow, American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, 2007
Senior Member, IEEE, 2007
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award, 2008
Honorary Professor of Biology, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, 2011
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2008
Member, Editorial Board, Biology Direct: Genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology
section, March 2007-
Member, Editorial Board, Cytometry Part A, May 2007-
Member, Editorial Board, Biology Direct: Discovery notes section, October 2007-
Software Section Editor, PLOS Computational Biology, March 2009-
Associate Editor, BMC Bioinformatics, May 2011-
Committee and Society Positions
Member, Data Standards Committee, International Soc. Analytical Cytology, Jan. 1990-March
2003 (Chair, Jan. 1998-March 2003)
Member, Publications Committee, International Society for Computational Biology, January
2004-present
Councillor, International Society for Analytical Cytology, May 2004-May 2006
Chair, Scientific Communications Committee, International Society for Analytical
Cytology,
May 2004-May 2006
Member, International Society for Analytical Cytology Management Task Force, March 2005 -
September 2006
President-elect, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, May 2006-May 2008
President, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, May 2008-May 2010
Immediate Past-President, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, May 2010-
Advisory Panels
Member, American Heart Association Western Pa. Peer Review Committee, March 1987-1991
Member, National Science Foundation Cell Biology Review Panel B, October 1989-March 1992
NIH, Special Study Section A (Biomedical Instrumentation), September 1990, June 1991
NIH, Biological Sciences 2 Study Section (Special Reviewer), July 1991, November 1991
NIH, Reviewers Reserve, December 1991-June 1993
Member, NIH Biological Sciences 2 Study Section, July 1993-June 1997
Chair, Carnegie Mellon University Faculty Development Fund, July 1996-June 1997
Member, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Review Panel, November 1996-1998
Member, NIH, ZRG2 CBY-1, March 1997, June 1997
Member, NIH, ZRG2 CBY-2, July, Dec. 1998 (Chair), March, July, Nov. 1999, March, June
2000
Member, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates Review Panel, November 2000
Member, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Panel, February 2001, February 2002
Member, Visiting Review Committee, Biological and Medical Informatics Program, University
of California, San Francisco, March 28-29, 2002
Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Sequel Genetics, 2002-2003
Member, NIH SSS-U (Instrumentation), August 2002
Member, NIH SSS-H (Computational Biology), June 2002, November 2002, February 2003,June
2003, November 2003
Member, Visiting Review Committee, Image Analysis Laboratory, National Cancer Institute,
Frederick, MD, January 2004
Member, NIH BDMA Study Section, March 2004
Chair, NIH BDMA Study Section, June 2004-June 2006
Member, NIH ZGM1 BRT-9 (KR) Study Section, August 2006
Member, NIH ZRG1 CB-B (40) Study Section, November 2006
Member, NIH ZRG1 BST-R (30) Study Section, October 2007
Member, NIH NIGMS Advisory Council, January 2009-December 2012
Member, Advisory Board, Caribbean Computing Center for Excellence, September 2010-
Member, NIH Council of Councils, November 2011-October 2014
Program Committees
Chair, Cytometry Development Workshop, November 1998-October 2006
Scientific and Medical Advisory Board, Pittsburgh Bone Symposium, August 2003
Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks in Signal
Processing, September 2003
Finance Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 2006
Member, Organizing Committee, International Society for Analytical Cytology XXIII
Congress,
May 2006
Member, Program Committee, MICCAI Workshop on Microscopic Image Analysis with
Applications in Biology, October 1, 2006
Member, Program Committee, International
Invited Faculty Member, Short Course on High-Content Analysis, Society for Biomolecular
Sciences Conference 2005, Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2005
Invited Tutorial Image Analysis of Subcellular Patterns for High Throughput Screening
and
Systems Biology, International Society for Analytical Cytology XXIII Congress, Quebec
City, Quebec, Canada, May 20, 2006
Invited Tutorial Basics of Machine Learning for Image or Flow (Cytometry),
International
Society for Analytical Cytology XXIII Congress, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, May 20,
2006
Invited Faculty Member, Short Course on High-Content Analysis, Society for Biomolecular
Sciences Conference 2006, Seattle, Washington, September 17, 2006
Faculty Member, Machine Learning Department Autumn Course on Data Mining from Text and
Image, Pittsburgh, PA, September 27, 2006
Invited Tutorial Machine Learning Approaches to Information Extraction from Text and
Images
in Biomedical Journal Articles, International Association of Science and Technology for
Development Biomed 2007 and Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications
2007, Innsbruck, Austria, February 15, 2007
Invited Faculty Member, IV Interactive Course in Cytometry, Modena, Italy, March 6-9,
2007
Faculty Member, Twelfth Annual Course on 3D Microscopy of Living Cells, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 29-July 2, 2007
Invited Faculty Member, Short Course on High-Content Analysis, Society for Biomolecular
Sciences Conference 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, April 6, 2008
Faculty Member, Thirteenth Annual Course on 3D Microscopy of Living Cells, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 28-30, 2008
Short Course, Machine Learning Approaches to Biological Research: Bioimage Informatics
and
Beyond, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Freiburg, Germany, September 29-
October 1, 2008
Selected Tutorial Automated Proteome-wide Determination and Modeling of Subcellular
Location, Sixth Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, Rostock,
Germany, October 12, 2008
Invited Faculty Member, V Advanced Course in Cytometry, Modena, Italy, March 3-8, 2009
Invited Speaker, EMBO Practical Course on Light Microscopy of Living Cells, Oeiras,
Portugal,
May 29-June 5, 2009
Lecture on Advanced Image Analysis, Life Cell Imaging Workshop, Zentrum fUr Biosystems
Analyse, Freiburg, Germany, July 14, 2009
Short Course, Bioimage Informatics: Automated Image Analysis and Modeling, Biogem,
Ariano Irpino, Italy, July 7-9, 2010
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute for Medical and
Biological Engineering (Fellow), American Society for Cell Biology, Biomedical
Engineering
Society, Human Proteome Organization, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE,
Senior Fellow), International Clinical Cytometry Society, International Society for
Advancement
of Cytometry, International Society for Computational Biology, Sigma Xi
1.
R.F. Murphy and J. Bonner (1975). Alkaline Extraction of Non-Histone Proteins from
Rat
Liver Chromatin. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 405:62-66.
2.J.M. Gottesfeld, R. F. Murphy and J. Bonner (1975). Structure of Transcriptionally
Active
Chromatin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 72:4404-4408. [144 citations according to ISI as of
June 2007]
3.R.B. Wallace, T. D. Sargent, R. F. Murphy and J. Bonner (1977). Physical Properties
of
Chemically Acetylated Rat Liver Chromatin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:3244-3248. [47
citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
4. J. Bonner, R. B. Wallace, T. D. Sargent, R. F. Murphy and S. K. Dube (1977). The
Expressed
Portion of Eukaryotic Chromatin. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 42:851-857.
5.R.F. Murphy, R. B. Wallace and J. Bonner (1978). Altered Nucleosome Spacing in Newly
Replicated Chromatin from Friend Leukemia Cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75:5903-
5907. [32 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
6.R.B. Wallace, J. Schaeffer, R. F. Murphy, T. Hirosa, K. Itakura and J. Bonner (1979).
Hybridization of Synthetic Oligodeoxyribonucleotides to fX174 DNA: The Effect of Single
Base Pair Mismatch. Nucleic Acids Res. 6:3543-3557. [520 citations according to ISI as of
Nov 2009]
7.R.F. Murphy, W. R. Pearson and J. Bonner (1979). Computer Programs for Analysis of
Nucleic Acid Hybridization, Thermal Denaturation and Gel Electrophoresis Data. Nucleic
Acids Res. 6:3911-3921. [31 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
8.R.F. Murphy, R. B. Wallace and J. Bonner (1980). Isolation of Newly-Replicated
Chromatin
by Using Shallow Metrizamide Gradients. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77:3336-3340.
9.R.F. Murphy (1980). Chromosomal Protein-DNA Interactions. Doctoral Thesis. California
Institute of Technology.
10. R. F. Murphy, J. R. Daban and C. R. Cantor (1981). Flow Cytofluorometric Analysis of
the
Nuclear Division Cycle of Physarum Polycephalum Plasmodia. Cytometry 2:26-30.
11. R. F. Murphy, E. D. Jorgensen and C. R. Cantor (1982). Kinetics of Histone
Endocytosis in
Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells: A Flow Cytofluorometric Analysis. J. Biol. Chem. 257:1695-
1701. [34 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
12. R. F. Murphy, S. Powers, M. Verderame, C. R. Cantor and R. Pollack (1982). Flow
Cytofluorometric Analysis of Insulin Binding and Internalization by Swiss 3T3 Cells.
Cytometry 2:402-406. [44 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
13. R. Haas, R. F. Murphy and C. R. Cantor (1982). Testing Models of the Arrangement of
DNA
Inside Bacteriophage Lambda by Crosslinking the Packaged DNA. J. Mol. Biol. 159:71-92.
14. P. L. McNeil, R. F. Murphy, F. Lanni and D. L. Taylor (1984). A Method for
Incorporating
Macromolecules into Adherent Cells. J. Cell Biol. 98:1556-1564. [227 citations according
to
ISI as of Nov 2009]
15. R. F. Murphy, S. Powers and C. R. Cantor (1984). Endosome pH Measured in Single Cells
by Dual Fluorescence Flow Cytometry: Rapid Acidification of Insulin to pH 6. J. Cell
Biol.
98:1757-1762. [118 citations according to ISI as of Nov 2009]
16. R. F. Murphy, S. Powers, C. R. Cantor and R. Pollack (1984). Reduced Insulin
Endocytosis
in Serum Transformed Fibroblasts Demonstrated by Flow Cytometry. Cytometry 5:275-280.
30. C. C. Cain and R. F. Murphy (1986). Growth Inhibition of 3T3 Fibroblasts by
Lysosomotropic Amines: Correlation with Effects on Intravesicular pH but Not Vacuolation.
J. Cell. Physiol. 129:65-70. [30 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
31. M. Roederer and R. F. Murphy (1986). Cell-By-Cell Autofluorescence Correction for Low
Signal-to-Noise Systems: Application to EGF Endocytosis by 3T3 Fibroblasts. Cytometry
7:558-565. [41 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
32. M. Roederer, R. Bowser, and R. F. Murphy (1987). Kinetics and Temperature Dependence
of
Exposure of Endocytosed Material to Proteolytic Enzymes and Low pH: Evidence for a
Maturation Model for the Formation of Lysosomes. J. Cell. Physiol. 131:200-209. [116
citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
33. S. Taylor, M. Roederer, and R. F. Murphy (1987). Flow Cytometric DNA Analysis of
Adrenocortical Tumors in Children. Cancer 59:2059-2063. [33 citations according to ISI as
of June 2007]
34. D. M. Sipe and R. F. Murphy (1987). High resolution kinetics of transferrin
acidification in
Balb/c 3T3 cells: Exposure to pH 6 followed by temperature-sensitive alkalinization
during
recycling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84:7119-7123. [51 citations according to ISI as of
June
2007]
35. R. A. Preston, R. F. Murphy, and E. W. Jones (1987). Apparent Endocytosis of FITC-
Dextran by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Reflects Uptake of Low Molecular Weight Impurities,
not Dextran. J. Cell Biol. 105:1981-1987. [61 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
36. C. C. Cain and R. F. Murphy (1988). A Chloroquine-resistant Swiss 3T3 Cell Line with
a
Defect in Late Endocytic Acidification. J. Cell Biol. 106:269-277.
37. S. Taylor, J. Blatt, J. Costantino, M. Roederer, and R. F. Murphy (1988). Flow
Cytometric
DNA Analysis of Neuroblastoma and Ganglioneuroma: a 10-year Retrospective Study.
Cancer 62:749-754. [105 citations according to ISI as of June 2007]
38. R. F. Murphy (1988). Processing of Endocytosed Material. Adv. Cell Biol. 2:159-180.
+
39. C. C. Cain, D. M. Sipe and R. F. Murphy (1989). Regulation of Endocytic pH by the Na
+
/K-ATPase in Living Cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:544-548. [133 citations
according to ISI as of November 2009]
40. M. Roederer, R. W. Mays and R. F. Murphy (1989). Effect of Confluence on Endocytosis
by
3T3 Fibroblasts: Increased Rate of Pinocytosis and Accumulation of Residual Bodies. Eur.
J.
Cell Biol. 48:37-44.
41. C. R. Abramowsky, S. R. Taylor, A. H. Anton, A. Berk, M. Roederer and R. F. Murphy
(1989). Flow Cytometry DNA Ploidy Analysis and Catecholamine Secretion Profiles in
Neuroblastoma. Cancer 63:1752-1756.
42. R. B. Wilson and R. F. Murphy (1989). Flow Cytometric Analysis of Endocytic
Compartments. Methods Cell Biol. 31:293-317.
43. R. F. Murphy (1989). Flow Cytometric Analysis of Ligand Binding and Endocytosis. In:
Microspectrofluorometry of Single Cells, E. Kohen and J. G. Hirschberg (eds.), Academic
Press, New York, pp. 363-376.
44. R. F. Murphy, M. Roederer, D. M. Sipe, C. Cain, and R. Bowser (1989). Determination
of
the Biochemical Characteristics of Endocytic Compartments by Flow Cytometric and
Fluorometric Analysis of Cells and Organelles. In: Flow Cytometry: Advanced Research
and Clinical Applications, Volume II, A. Yen (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 221-
254.
45. R. A. Preston, R. F. Murphy and E. W. Jones (1989). Assay of Vacuolar pH in Yeast and
Identification of Acidification-defective Mutants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86:7027-
7031.
[115 citations according to ISI as of Nov 2009]
46. R. F. Murphy (1990). Ligand Binding, Endocytosis, and Processing. In: Flow Cytometry
and Sorting, Second Edition, M. R. Melamed, T. Lindmo, M. L. Mendelsohn (eds.), Wiley-
Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 355-366.
47. R. Bowser and R. F. Murphy (1990). Kinetics of Hydrolysis of Endocytosed Substrates
by
Mammalian Cultured Cells: Early Introduction of Lysosomal Enzymes into the Endocytic
Pathway. J. Cell. Physiol. 143:110-117.
48. M. Roederer
J. Barry, R. B. Wilson and R. F. Murphy (1990). Endosomes Can Undergo an
ATP-dependent
RECOMB 2011) 6577:204-221.
180.T. Peng and R.F. Murphy (2011) Image-derived, Three-dimensional Generative Models of
Cellular Organization. Cytometry Part A 79A:383-391.
181.R. F. Murphy (2011) An active role for machine learning in drug development. Nature
Chemical Biology 7:327-330.
182.C. Jackson, E. Glory, R. F. Murphy and J. Kovacevic (2011) Model building and
intelligent
acquisition with application to protein subcellular location classification.
Bioinformatics
27:1854-1859.
183.T. Lin, Z. Bar-Joseph, and R. F. Murphy (2011) Learning Cellular Sorting Pathways
Using
Protein Interactions and Sequence Motifs. Journal of Computational Biology 18: 1709-1722.
184.R. F. Murphy (2012) CellOrganizer: Image-derived Models of Subcellular Organization
and
Protein Distribution. Methods in Cell Biology, in press.
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