Alumni
Ph.D.
Alkharouf, Nadim (2004)
"Functional Genomics of the Soybean-Cyst Nematode Interaction"
Advisor: Matthews
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University
Alsheddi, Tariq (2007)
"A computational geometry approach to the analysis of structure-function relationship in Beta strand proteins"
Advisor: Vaisman
Al-Timimi, Ali (2005)
"Chaos and Complexity in Cancer"
Advisor: Jamison
Banerjee, Nilanjana (2004)
"Combinatorial transcription regulation: insights from integration of diverse genomic data"
Advisor: Grefenstette
Current Position: Joint Centers for Systems Biology, Irving Cancer Research Center
Barenboim, Maxim (2005)
"A Neuro-Fuzzy Approach to Classification of Human Non-Synonymous
SNPs Based upon Computational Geometry"
Advisor: Jamison
Carr, David Andrew (2006)
"Site identification in proteins using a computational geometry approach and multi-body statistical potentials"
Advisor: Vaisman
Chikando, Aristide (2008)
"A Computational Study of Excitation-Contraction Coupling: Mechanisms of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Leak and the Role of Mitochondria in Myoplasmic Calcium Regulation"
Advisor: Jafri
Deshmukh, Hrishikesh (2006)
"Probe-based data cleansing and unsupervised, supervised approaches for gene-level analyses"
Advisor: Weller
Erb, Robert (1999)
"Analysis and Modeling of Gene Expression Circuits"
Advisor: Michaels
Current Position: Gene Logic, Inc.
Ding, Yan (2007)
"On the Complexity Measures of Protein Mutant Activity, Stability, and Evolution"
Advisor: Vaisman
Current Position: Principal Software Engineer, QuadraMed Corporation
Erwin, Harry (2000)
"A Computational Sensormotor Model of Bat Biosonar"
Advisor: Moss
Current Position: University of Sunderland, School of Computing and Technology
Garian, Robert (2000)
"Prediction of Dimeric Structure of Proteins from Amino Acid
Sequences"
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Library of Congress
Glanowski, Stephen (2004)
"Computational Analysis of Mitochondrial Sequence Diversity in Shotgun Sequence Data"
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: Avalon Pharmaceuticals
Guo, Yongjian (2005)
"The Distribution of Human SNPs in Gene Promoter and Coding Regions"
Advisor: Jamison
Current Position: Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Heiman, Thomas (2006)
"An Empirical Assessment of Aggregation and Asynchrony on the Inference of Gene Networks from Gene Expression Data"
Advisor: Grefenstette
Higgs, Brandon (2006)
"Deriving Meaningful Structure from Spectral Embedding"
Advisors: Weller and Solka
Current Position: Mitre Corporation
Kahn, Ari (2007)
"Biological and technological implications of gene splice variants"
Advisor: Jamison
Kim, Sohyoung (2004)
"Mechanisms and Models of Gene Regulation"
Advisor: Grefenstette
Current Position: Post-doc, NIH
Kritchmar, Jeff (1977)
"A Computational Model of Cerebellar Saccadic Control"
Advisor: Hunter
Current Position: The Neurosciences Institute
Leung, Elo (2007)
"Validating Gene Expression Results from Microarray Data"
Advisor: Weller/Solka
Masso, Majid (2006)
"Application of statistical geometry to the functional analysis of protein mutants"
Advisor: Vaisman
Mathe, Ewy (2006)
"Computational Approaches to Study Structural and Functional
Effects of Single Point Mutations"
Advisor: Vaisman
Current Position: Post-doc, NIH
Matukumalli, Lakshmi Kumar (2004)
"Development of Bioinformatics Applications for Prediction and Validation of Polymorphisms in Soybean (Glycine Max) Genome using EST Data"
Advisor: Grefenstette
Current Position: Post-doc, George Mason University, USDA
McGrath, Connor (2000)
"Homology Modeling of Retroviral Zinc Fingers"
Advisor: Michaels
Current Position: NCI
Moon, Won Jong (2007)
"Co-expressed gene clusters in the human and mouse genomes, mutational analysis of SNPS, and DNA microarray methods"
Advisor: Fryxell
Current Position: Research scientist, Duffy Lab, Malaria Program, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Nguyen, My-Hanh Thi (2006)
"A Computational model of the Regulation of Mitochondrial Respiration in Cardiac Ventricular Myocytes"
Advisor: Jafri
Current Position: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas,
Innovation Laboratory (http://innovation.swmed.edu/), position title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Pierce, John (2006)
Two studies of anthrax. I. Altered gene expression in anthrax-infected mice. II. Mathematical modeling of the anthrax infection process"
Advisor: Jamison
Ramay, Hena (2007)
"A computational study of excitation contracrtion coupling in rat ventricular myocytes"
Advisor: Jafri
Current Position: Department of Pharmacology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Ravich, Vadim (2006)
"Computational Studies of Structure and Function of Viral Reverse Transcriptase"
Advisor: Vaisman
Reck, Gregory (2007)
"Adaptation and use of four-body statistical potential to examine thermodynamic properties of proteins"
Advisor: Vaisman
Shah, Imran (1999)
"Predicting Enzyme Function From Sequence"
Advisor: Hunter
Current Position: Asst. Prof.,Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics,
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Sudama, Gita (2008)
"Are There Observable Metabolic Signature Patterns in C. elegans: Specifically for Different Life Stages Grown with and without the Added Antioxidants Vitamin C and Vitamin E"
Advisor: Willett
Tanabe, Loraine (2003)
"Text Mining in the Biomedical Literature for Genetic Knowledge"
Advisor: Hunter
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Computational Biology Branch, National Center for BioTechnology Information,
National Institute of Health
Taylor, Ronald (2003)
"Reconstruction of Metabolic and Genetic Networks form Gene Expression
Perturbation Data Using a Boolean Model: Construction of a Simulation
Testbed and an Empirical Exploration of Some of the Limits"
Advisor: Hunter
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, work phone: (509) 372-6568
Taylor, Todd (2006)
"Analysis of the structure and topology of real and model proteins using Delaunay tessellation"
Advisor: Vaisman
Tongvichit, Navachat (1997)
"Web Based Genographics used in Federated Information Manager for Genome Analysis"
Advisor: Michaels
Vandersluis, Patrick (1999)
"Detecting Silent Ischemia: Enhanced Visualization of Cardiac Electrophysiology
Using Virtual Leads"
Advisor: Wegman
Current Position: Chairman and CEO,
HealthRX Corp
Yang, Pei-Chi (2007)
"A computational analysis of signal transduction pathways and transcriptional factors in T lymphocytes"
Advisor: Jafri
Current Position: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
Zeeberg, Barry (1999)
"Whole Genome Information Analysis and Processing"
Advisors: Hunter and Michaels
Current Position: NIH/NCI/LMP
Zhan, Shili(2007)
"Computational Mutagenesis Models for Protein Activity and Stability Analysis"
Advisor: Vaisman
M.S.
Heiman, Thomas (2003)
Degree: MS in Computational Sciences and Infomatics
Advisor: Grefenstette
Current Position: SRA
Tibriwal, Aruna (2004)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Current Position: Software Engineer, NCICB/SAIC
Chilukuri, Jyothsna (2004)
degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Grefenstette
Current Position: Knowledge Analyst, NCICB
Su, Jing (2004)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Research Assoc. Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Ctr
Samridhi, Goswami (2004)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Dept of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, PhD candidate and GeneLogic.
Kumari, Sunita (2004)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Thornton, Jennifer (2004)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Position: Contractor/Bioinformatics Analyst/Programmer, Ft. Belvoir
Chapman, David (2004)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Position: Research Assoc/Bioinformatics Analyst, University of Texas
Xiang, Yan (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: SuperArray Bioscience Corp.
Jahangeer, Muffarah (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Summers
Current Position: Adjunct Faculty, George Mason University
Gan, Jai-Wei (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jamison
Chen, Huiru (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Clark, James (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Biostatistical Programmer Analyst, Immune Tolerance Network
Halavi, Maryam (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Ascoli
Hanumanula, Madhuri (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
NIH Contractor/Data Analyst, NCI
Kambam, Narendra (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Schwartz, Karen (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Current Position: Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute
Shen, Peng (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jamison
Current Position: Information Specialist, ATCC
Yin, Zhong (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Winfrey, Sarah (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Palanigobu, Vasuki (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Bittenbender, Sarah (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Current Position: SAIC
Muthuluru, Aruna (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Current Position: Statistical Programming Analyst, Quintiles Inc.
Sims, Jason (2005)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jafri
Alam, Farhana (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Barker, Jessica (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Diaz, Maricar (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Kinser
Dinh, Lan Chi (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Quest Diagnostics Inc., Nichols Institute
Dommaraju, Kalpana (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: NOAA (NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION)
Nathan, Shyam (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Rajamani, Saraswathi (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Mehari, Yonas (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Rainey, Timothy (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jafri
Current Position: Symmetron, LLC
Annavarapu, Swapna (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Bioinformatics Analyst. TIGR
Banskota, Nirad (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Vaisman
Brower, Rachel (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Ko, Chi-hung (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Bioinformatics Analyst. SAIC-Frederick/NIH-NIAID
Mathuria, Jyothi (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Klimov
Rabah, Shaun (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
Ryan, Michael (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jamison
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Tavakoli, Tahereh (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: ATCC
Walsh, Michael (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jamison
Acharya, Mekhala (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Dept. of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Phd candidate
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Liu, Elizabeth (2006)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Kinser
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Adini, Pratyusha (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Bhimidi, Tashfeen (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Kinser
Horton, Anita (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research topic: Evolution and variation of the human adenovirus
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Cell Biology Information Specialist, ATCC
Johnson, Seth (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Tappita, Kishor (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
White, John (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Bioinformatics Applications Analyst, TerpSys/NCICB
Al-Razgan, Othman (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Gangiredla, Jayanthi (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
He, Jun (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jafri
Kumar, Rashmi (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Jafri
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Narala, Manaswini (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Yeboah, Spencer (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Current Position: Inova Fairfax Hospital
Zukas, Anthony (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Solka/Weller
Current Position: SAIC
Agarwal, Ankur (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Kinser
Tanksale, Kavita (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Alpert, Meredith (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Khoshnevis, Saeed (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Weller
King, John (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Seto
Mistry, Minal (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Kinser
Nadella, Kasturi (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Klimov
Wisittipanit, Nuttachat (2007)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Kinser
Current Position: PhD Student, Dept. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Downs, Robert (2008)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research Topic: DNA to Protein Patenting Issues
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Patent Law, Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch LLP
Joshi, Natasha (2008)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research Topic: Computational modeling of the Cofilin Pathway
Advisor: Jafri
Kanchinadam, Krishna M. (2008)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research Topic: DataMapX: A tool for cross-mapping entities and attributes between bioinformatics databases.
Advisor: Weller, Jennifer
Current Position: 5AM Solutions Inc. (http://www.5amsolutions.com)/National Cancer Institute, NIH
Shetty, Ahana (2008)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research Topic: Comparison of two genome sequences representing Ad5 and a recent isolate Ad5FS for recombination
Advisor: Seto
Ullagaddi, Anita (2008)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research Topic: Study of recombinant adenoviruses in humans
Advisor: Seto
Vemana, Haritha (2008)
Degree: MS in Bioinformatics
Research Topic: Annotation of Mariprofundus Ferroxydans bacterial genome
Advisor:
M.S. New Professional Studies
Armistead, David (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Clearant
Brown, Robert (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Director of IT, Clearant
Buchanan, Janelle (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: Office of Science and Technology, National Institute
of Justice
Carrera, Ana (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Applied Biosystems
Drainey, Zachary (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences,
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: Federal Bureau of Investigation DNA Unit 2
Enokpa, Emmanuel (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics,
Advisor: Gillevet
Gandreti, Vijaya (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: George Mason University Centre for Biomedical Genomics and Informatics
Hedges, Robyn (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: Federal Bureau of Investigation DNA Unit 2
Hutson-Black, Janinne (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Pharmaceutical Sales Representative, Pfizer Inc.
Johnson, Thomas (2002)
Degree: MNPS in BioTechnology
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute
Kebede, Solomon (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: IOMAI Corporation
Kifle, Gizachew (2002)
Degree: MNPS in BioTechnology
Advisor: Gillevet
Medicherla, Satyavathi (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: University of Maryland
Pineda, Marbin (2002)
Degree: MNPS in BioTechnology
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Geneticist, Laboratory or Population Genetics, National Cancer Institute
Satcher, Ryan (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences
Advisor: Dr. Keith McKenney
Current Position: Cellmark
Seeke, Swathi (2002)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Abrahle, Tesfom (2003)
Degree: MNPS in BioTechnology
Advisor: McKenney
Bradshaw, Dawn (2003)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: General Dynamics-Advanced Information Systems
Brinkac, Lauren (2003)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: Bioinformatics Analyst, Institute for Genomic Research
Wilson, Glenda (2003)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: George Mason University
Jamison, Debra (2003)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: BioReliance
Ryan, Christopher (2003)
Degree: MNPS in Bioinformatics
Advisor: Gillevet
Current Position: George Mason University
Wilson, Stacey (2003)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: Maryland State Police Crime Lab
Hasychak, Bryony (2004)
Degree: MNPS in Forensic Biosciences
Advisor: McKenney
Current Position: Bode Technology Group
Holloway, Linda (2005)
Degree: MNPS in BioTechnology
Advisor: Gillevet