John Hall

Doctor and scientific consultant with experience in cellular and molecular biology, genetics, genomics and bioinformatics. He has directed programs focused on the mechanisms of motility and cell division. He has extensive experience with bioinformatics tools and in the computational analysis of genes and proteins. As an independent consultant, he has worked between 1999 and 2003 in academies and biotechnology and pharmacy industries on problems arising from the use of genotyping in human populations. Between 1996 and 1998 he worked as a scientific and bioinformatics consultant at the Rockefeller University, Protein/DNA Technology Center, where he developed a bioinformatics system understandable for Unix, LIMS, Oracle platforms, including databases, calculations and Intranet servers, which won an award from Sun Microsystems Inc. for this specific hardware. Between 1990 and 1997 he also worked at Rockefeller University as an assistant professor in the cell biology laboratory.

He participated in MediaLab in the bioinformatics seminar, Origin of cellular movement: a genomic and proteomic approach, in which a study of the function of microtubules in the neuronal activity of animals, and consequently in human thinking, is carried out. The seminar closed with a reflection from art towards these fascinating aspects of the study of life: linear information storage (sequence), translation into three-dimensional information (function) and integration into an organized system (life).