Graduate Student Research Presentations, Spring 2006
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
2:00 - 6:00pm
Verizon Auditorium, Occoquan Building, Prince William Campus
Poster Session
- Tahereh Tavakoli: "Gene function informatics associated with gene expression" (Advisor: Jamison)
- Swapna Annavarapu: "Papilloma virus GenPro database" (Advisor: Seto)
- Nirad Banskota: "Computational geometry approach to comparison of mesophilic and thermophilic proteins" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- Pei-Chi Yang: "A computational model of NFkB and JNK activation in T lymphocytes" (Advisor: Jafri)
- Chi-hung Ko: "Genome annotation of Human Adenovirus Type 3" (Advisor: Seto)
M.S. Student Presentations
- Rachel Brower: "Structural exploration of non-coding RNAs" (Advisor: Weller)
- Kishor Tappita: "Hierarchical classification of environmental clone libraries" (Advisor: Gillevet)
- Shaun Rabah: "The effects of pathogen mRNA on the interpretation of the host response on microarrays" (Advisor: Weller)
- Michael Ryan: "Web-based tools for evaluation of the splice variant coverage of common microarrays" (Advisor: Jamison)
- Jyothi Mathuria: "Molecular dynamics simulations of amyloid forming peptide from B2-microglobulin" (Advisor: Klimov)
- Michael Walsh: "The zoo nutrition assessment database" (Advisor: Jamison)
Ph.D. Student Presentations
- Majid Masso: "Modeling functional consequences of amino acid replacements in proteins" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- David Andrew Carr: "Query times and dynamic tables in Probe-FATE" (Advisor: Weller)
- Hena Ramay: "A computational study of activation of adjacent calcium release sites: contribution of calcium overload and RyR sensitivity to calcium" (Advisor: Jafri)
- David Andrew Carr: "Site identification in proteins using a computational geometry approach and multi-body statistical potentials" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- Todd Taylor: "Prediction of variations in alpha helix geometry with Delaunay simplex stacking" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- John Pierce: "Modeling the anthrax infection process" (Advisor: Jamison)
- Majid Masso: "Application of statistical geometry to the functional analysis of protein mutants" (Advisor: Vaisman)
- Hrishikesh Deshmukh: "Probe-based data cleansing and unsupervised, supervised approaches for gene-level analyses" (Advisor: Weller)