Dr. Bruce Byrne was awarded the PhD by Indiana University in Genetics, working under the supervision of protozoan geneticist T.M. Sonneborn. Following postdoctoral study at Cornell University with Peter Bruns, he taught at Wells College while spending summers and sabbaticals in the laboratories of Ching Kung (University of Wisconsin, Madison; behavioral genetics) and John R. Preer, Jr., (Indiana University, Bloomington; Molecular Biology of Surface Antigens). On leave from Wells, he worked with Bernard J. Poiesz (SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse; detection and characterization of Human Immunodeficiency Virus) before moving to Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden where he continued HIV studies and extended his work to collaborations in the areas of molecular oncology and sickle cell disease.

As his research interests migrated from the research bench to computational analysis, Dr. Byrne accepted an appointment in UMDNJ's Academic Computing Services ACS) where he headed that organization's research computing and network/web resources.

In that role, Dr. Byrne became involved once again in teaching, this time bringing the tools of Bioinformatics into the curriculum. In 2002 he moved from ACS into the Informatics Institute, coordinating and teaching in this organization's education and training missions.

Dr. Byrne's current research interests are in comparitive genomics and evolution. He is an Adjunct Professor in both the Department of Medicine and the Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology and Immunology at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School of UMDNJ. He serves on numerous University-wide committees and the Network Advisory Board of New Jersey's state-wide higher education network, NJEDge.Net