Dr. Diane Rein Joins the UB Libraries

Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Specialist

POSTED: May 2, 2008

Dr. Diane Rein with
Dr. Gary Byrd

Dr. Diane Rein, Ph.D. and MSLIS, joins the faculty of the University Libraries on May 1, 2008.  She is the UB Libraries’ specialist/liaison to the Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology research community.  In this position, she is based at the Health Sciences Library on the UB South Campus and she also has office space at the Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo.  Her expertise and liaison services are, however, available to faculty and graduate students in these disciplines on all three UB campuses.   
 
     Dr. Rein brings over 35 years of scientific research experience to this position, including masters, doctoral and postgraduate fellowship training and faculty appointments in cell biology, developmental biology, and molecular/biochemical genetics at the University of Cincinnati, Stanford University, and the Baylor College of Medicine.  Her degree in library and information science is from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Most recently, Dr. Rein has been Assistant Life Sciences Librarian and Molecular Biosciences Specialist at Purdue University where she focused on the information resources and information management training needs of these research disciplines. 

    Dr. Rein has been recognized nationally for her expertise as a biotechnology information resources consultant and trainer.  She was appointed as a visiting scholar at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health.  Her curriculum vitae includes 16 peer-reviewed articles in molecular biology and genetics and 10 more peer-reviewed articles in library and information science.  Over her career, she has received over $1.4 million in research grant support as a principle investigator or co-PI.

     The Libraries and the University look forward to the new expertise and services she will provide for the research/medical community here at UB.  The Libraries encourage faculty and researchers to become acquainted with Dr. Rein.  Her email address is drein@buffalo.edu, and her telephone is 829-3900 x113.