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Faculty Trainers

GSTP Faculty Name /
Primary Department
Research Interests
Ansari, Aseem
Biochemistry
Studying the regulation of gene expression at the interface of chemistry biology and genomics, dissecting genome-wide transcriptional cascades.
Asimakopoulous, Fotis
Medicine
Genomic approaches to characterize multiple myeloma
Attie, Alan
Biochemistry
Molecular genetics of diabetes & insulin resistance; cell biology of lipoprotein assembly and cholesterol trafficking.
 
Beebe, David
Biomedical Engineering
Design, fabrication, and testing of novel micro fabrication techniques; microdevices and microsystems designed to facilitate advances in biology.
 
Bresnick, Emery
Cell & Regenerative Biology
Multidisciplinary approaches to understand stem/progenitor cell function, blood cell development, and vascular biology.
 
Burkard, Mark
Medicine; Hematology-Oncology
Identification of genetic alterations in cancer cells; cancer genomics; targeted treatment strategies for breast cancer.
 

Broman, Karl

Biostatistics and Medical Informatics

Statistical problems in genetics, genomics and molecular biology. Development of improved methods for detecting and identifying genes contributing to variation in complex traits.
 
Coen, Michael
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Translational machine learning applied to medical datasets; applying machine learning to genomic analyses
 
Coon, Joshua
Chemistry
Development and application of new technologies and instrumentation for automated, large-scale whole protein characterization
 
Craven, Mark
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Machine learning for bioinformatics and information extraction; learning comphensive models.
Culbertson, Michael
Genetics
Mechanisms of synthesis, decay, and function of RNA using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model system.
 
de Pablo, Juan
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Investigating thermophysical properties of fluids and solids at a molecular level and using molecular-thermodynamic models.

Dewey, Colin

Biostatistics & Medical Informatics

Algorithms for problems in comparative genomics
 
Donohue, Timothy
Bacteriology
Studying synthesis and activity of proteins that function in critical energy generating pathways in Rhodobacter sphaeroides.
 
Dove, William
Oncology, Medical Genetics
Mouse development and neoplasia
 
Dyer, Charles
Computer Sciences
Developing basic tools for controlling in real-time, either autonomously or interactively, a virtual camera of a real environment.
 
Fox, Catherine
Biomolecular Chemistry
Genomic and computational analyses of chromsome replication in eukaryotes
 
Gasch, Audrey
Genetics
The genomics of yeast responses to environmental stress and starvation.
 
Gould, Michael
Oncology
Molecular genetics of mammary carcinogenesis and translation research in the area of breast cancer prevention and therapy.
 
Hittinger, Chris
Genetics
Diversity and evolution of yeast carbon metabolism networks.
 
Hull, Christina M.
Biomolecular Chemistry
Molecular biology of human fungal pathogens.
 
Kendziorski, Christina
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Development and application of statistical methods for gene mapping and gene expression array studies.
 
Kreeger, Pamela
Biomedical Engineering
Systems biology, ovarian cancer, endocrine signaling
 
Krysan, Patrick
Horticulture
Signal transduction in Arabidopsis thaliana with a focus on MAP kinase signaling pathways.  Functional genomics using A. thaliana.
 
Loewe, Laurence
Genetics
Evolutionary systems biology, evolutionary genetics, species extinction, antibiotics resistance evolution, population genetics, systems biology, simulation, parameter estimation, distributed computing
 
Markley, John
Biochemistry
NMR spectroscopy and its biological applications; structure function relationships in proteins; and stable-isotope assisted multinuclear NMR.
 
Newton, Michael
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Developing statistical methods to address problems with the comparison ofexpression arrays.
 
Page, C. David
Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Data mining and machine learning, with applications to bioinformatics,chemoinformatics, and health sciences; inductive learning programming.
 
Pagliarini, David
Biochemistry
Investigation of the biochemical underpinnings of mitochondrial dysfunction in human diseases
 
Palecek, Sean
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Cellular engineering, intracellular signal transduction, cell and protein biosensors.
 
Palmenberg, Ann
Biochemistry
Molecular biology of RNA picornaviruses, protein translation, proteolytic processing, RNA synthesis, viral pathogenesis and vaccines.
 
Payseur, Bret
Genetics
Population genetic processes that determine patterns and levels of variation throughout the genome, including natural selection, recombination, and mutations.
 
Perna, Nicole
Genetics
Genome scale comparative analysis to identify the genetic elements that distinguish one complete genome from another.
 
Pfleger, Brian
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, biotechnology, protein engineering, natural products.
 
Pool, John
Genetics
New inference methods for population genomic sequence data; genetic basis of parallel melanic evolution in Drosophila.
 
Ramanathan, Parmesh
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Characterization of the temporal dynamics of networks of gene interactions; longer-term goal, creation of a virtual foundry for genomic circuits.
 
Reed, Jennifer
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Systems biology, metabolic model development and analysis, metabolic engineering, biofuels, bioremediation, and biotechnology.
 
Sushmita Roy
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
Inference of structure and function of regulatory networks; Comparative analysis of expression modules across species.
 
Schwartz, David C.
GSTP Program Director
Chemistry / Genetics
Chemistry and biology of single molecule systems with applications to genomic sciences.
 
 
Shavlik, Jude
Computer Sciences

Machine learning and datamining applied to biomedical tasks such as microarray ("gene chip") analysis and design, protein-structure determination, and information extraction from on-line biomedical text.

 
Shusta, Eric
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Development of an in vitro model of the Blood Brain Barrier (BBB);analysis of membrane proteome of the BBB.
 
Skop, Ahna
Genetics
Cytokinesis and cell cycle proteomics.
 
Smith, Lloyd
Chemistry
Development and application of novel methods and approaches for the analysis and manipulation of biomolecules.
 
Sussman, Michael
Biochemistry
Signal transduction in eukaryotes, development of genomic technologies, plasma membrane receptors and ion transporters, Arabidopsis thaliana.
 
Thomson, James
Anatomy
The biology of pluripotency. Understanding how human embryonic stem (ES) cells choose between self-renewal, apoptosis, and differentiation into specific lineages.
 
van der Weide, Daniel
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Multifunctional scanned probe microscopy; localized spectroscopy of biological and low-dimensional electronic systems.
Wahba, Grace
Statistics
Development, testing and application of new methods for multivariate function estimation and statistical model building.
 
Yandell, Brian
Statistics
Statistical genomics; theoretical statistics; applications in selected areas of agriculture.
 
Yin, John
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Developing experimental and theoretical approaches to study growth, adaptation, and inactivation of viruses.

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