Diane Rein, Ph.D.

Diane Rein is an Assistant Life Sciences Librarian for Purdue University Libraries since 2003. She became active in bioinformatic librarianship as Purdue Libraries Molecular Biosciences Specialist and liaison. She chairs the Bioinformatics Initiatives Group within the Libraries; a group of seven librarians who both plan and provide bioinformatic instruction, services and informational research needs system-wide to Purdue faculty, staff and students in a proactive liaison and outreach effort. She currently is an EduCollab Project member of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) which develops and provides advanced bioinformatic instruction for information specialists and is one of the instructors for the Introduction to Molecular Biology Resources continuing-education 3-day course sponsored jointly through the National Library of Medicine, the Medical Library Association and NCBI.

Prior to joining the librarian profession, Diane received her Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from the Institute for Developmental Research at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She performed post-doctorate research into the genetics of muscle disease prior to joining the faculty at the University of Cincinnati as a "wet-bench" scientist working and publishing in the areas of DNA repair and enzymology while teaching in anatomy and physiology. Beginning in 1994, Diane became active as an analyst/consultant for various biotechnology companies. It was during this time that she became fascinated in scientific information transfer and knowledge management that ultimately led to her obtaining a Masters degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2001.