Center for Bioinformatics
Staff
Randy Morse is a Research Scientist and Chief of the Laboratory of Developmental Genetics and Bioinformatics. His research is centered on chromatin structure and transcriptional regulation in yeast.
Ivan Auger is a Research Scientist of the Wadsworth Center's Computational Molecular Biology and Statistics Core Facility. His research interests include sequence analysis, protein structure prediction, and algorithms for Bayesian Bioinformatics.
C. Steven Carmack is a Computer Scientist with extensive experience in computer system management.
Chi Yu (Clarence) Chan is a Computer Scientist whose current project focuses on RNA folding predictions and representation of the Boltzmann ensemble of RNA secondary structures through classification.
Ye Ding, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist and Principal Investigator of the RNA Structure and Regulation group, who is currently interested in RNA structure prediction, small regulatory RNAs in eukaryotes, and RNA regulation inprokaryotes.
Dang Long, Ph.D. is a Post-doc whose current project focuses on the computational prediction of microRNA targets in various organisms.
Lee Newberg, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist who is using algorithmic, statistical, and mathematical combinatorics approaches to computational molecular biology. He is currently interested in using cross-species DNA multiple alignments for phylogeny and the detection of conserved regions.
Andrew Reilly, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist and consultant in Wadsworth Center's Computational Molecular Biology and Statistics Core Facility. He is currently working on Bayesian decision theory and experimental designs, measurement error models, discriminant analysis, laboratory proficiency, medical informatics, and calibration techniques.
Collaborators
Victor Ambros, Dartmouth College,Computational prediction and experimental validation of miRNA target sites in C. elegans, C. briggsae and Drosophila melanogaster.
Keith Derbyshire, Wadsworth Center, Regulation of virulence loci of M. tuberculosis and development of genetic approaches for validation of computational predictions.
Caroline Harwood, University of Iowa, Study of nitrogen-related regulons in Rhodopseudomonas palustris.
Jun Liu, Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Study and application of general Bayesian methodology,investigating Monte Carlo computation methods especially Markov chain-related methods such as the Gibbs sampler and Metropolis algorithms.
Kathleen McDonough, Wadsworth Center, Development of antisense strategy for gene inhibition in bacterial systems; analysis of cAMP-regulatory systems in M. tuberculosis; characterization of gene expression differences between Y. pestisand Y. pseudotuberculosis.
Randall Morse, Wadsworth Center, Analysis of differential gene expression due to mutations in histone proteins of S. cerevisiaeusing microarrays.
Erasmus Schneider, Wadsworth Center, Rational design of trans-acting ribozymes for down-regulation of a breast cancer resistance gene.
The Shewanella Federation, A multi-investigator and cross-institutional consortium for the study of Shewanella oneidensis and related bacteria.
Gary Stormo, Washington University, Development of computational techniques to predict protein-DNA regulatory interactions.