Projects

Dr. Eric Kolaczyk - Website - From March 2009 to July 2009
Associate Professor in Deparment of Probability and Statistics
Boston University in Boston, MA
Dr. Scott Schaus - Website
Associate Professor in Department of Chemistry
Boston University in Boston, MA
- KEGG Pathway Expression Analysis Database.
- Created tool for analyzing gene expression in the context of KEGG Pathways database.
- PHP front end that utilizes R and Perl with a MySQL back end.

Rotations

Dr. Daniel Segrè - Website - From September 2008 to May 2009
Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics Department
Boston University in Boston, MA
- Studied hierarchical relationship of over-expression of core metabolic genes in the context of cancer's Warburg effect.
- Studied metabolic flux in core metabolism with novel flux-balance analysis (FBA) model.
- Attempted creation of multi-cellular flux balance framework.
- Studied effect of epistatic interactions in the context of core metabolism.
Dr. David Waxman - Website - From October 2008 to June 2009
Professor of Biology, Professor of Medicine
Boston University in Boston, MA
- Group Challenge Project with Matthew Schu and Han Hu
- Studied multiple microarray datasets in the context of sexually-dimorphic liver gene expression as driven by growth hormone.
- Analysis of driving forces of transcription in liver gene network in Ingenuity Pathway Analysis.
- Prediction of genes showing growth hormone-dependent expression levels without growth hormone-dependent upstream regulators.
Dr. Ivan Ovcharenko - Website - From June 2008 to August 2008
Primary Investigator at National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD
- Studied evolutionary conservation of single-nucleotide polymorphisms within linkage disequilibrium blocks and their effect on disease phenotype.
- Predictions in process of validation and are being gathered for publication.

Dr. Ping Liang - Website - From May 2007 to August 2007
Currently Associate Professor in Department of Biological Sciences
Brock University in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada

Formerly Assistant Professor of Oncology in Department of Cancer Genetics
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY
- Updated Database of Retrotransposon Insertion Polymorphisms (dbRIP) with novel elements in literature.
- Searched genome for polymorphic novel SINE-VNTR-Alu insertion.
- Work being gathered for publication.