Contact Information

Here's some pointers on how to most efficiently contact me. Basically, in both personal and professional contexts, I tend to strongly prefer email over unscheduled phone calls or paper mail. (I do like scheduled phone calls and meetings, however!) Unfortunately, I am sometimes a bit slow in responding to all the professional email that I get. In the later case, if it's urgent, I'd try to contact me through my assistant -- either by calling or writing her -- or by using the pleasepagemark email address. I've listed all the relevant numbers below.

Email

Mark.GersteinYale.edu  &  markGerstein.info

These are my normal emails or professional and personal contexts. One problem I increasingly have is that when someone is trying to contact me for the first time, I don't have them in my my whitelist and their email ends up in my spam pile. To prevent this, put *cyan* in the subject line of the message. I have my filters set up to try to not flag such messages as spam. Also, I sometimes get overwhelmed with professional emails and get slow in responding. So if you want to reach me quickly, see below.

pleasepagemarkyahoo.com

If you need to reach me rapidly try this, send an email to this address putting the *blue* in the subject line of the message. Use this sparingly. It goes to my cell phone (and to my normal email) and creates a buzz. It is best to keep the message very short and confined to the subject line of the message, viz: Subject: *blue* -- trying to contact you about sending you check for $1M.

adminasstbioinfo.mbb.yale.edu  &  aambgbioinfo.mbb.yale.edu

These emails go to my assistant, currently Anne Nicotra. The 2nd ones goes to both me and my assistant. (However, my assistant will respond to this first.) If you address your matter to my assistant, she can make sure that I know about it in a timely fashion.

Phone

203 432 6105 — You can call my office phone (which sometimes forwards to my cell). Try to make sure your caller ID shows through (with *82 if necessary) as I don't tend to pick up calls missing explicit identification. Again, it is often hard to get me by phone at random times.

203 432 8189 — This is my assistant's number. It is usually best to reach her by phone before trying me in a professional context.

Paper Mail and Physical Location

I much prefer email to paper mail, so this will get a slow response. Here is my correct paper mail address: Mark Gerstein, PO Box 208114 MBB, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520 USA.

If you want to meet in person (which I do like!). My office location is here.