Research

Lab Personnel

• Kajia Cao (Postdoc)
• Paul Ryvkin (GCB graduate rotation)
• Sameer Soi (GCB graduate rotation)
• Shu-Kai Chang (Master student, Penn Biotechnology Program)
• Srujan Peddapaidi (Undergraduate researcher)

Past Members

1. Steve Hershman (Undergraduate researcher; now at Harvard Systematic Biology Ph.D. Program)

Research Opportunities

If you are interested in rotation or research projects, please contact me for appointments, so I can learn more about your interests and discuss possible research topics with you.

(May 7, 2008) I am looking for students who are interested in the following topics during the summer:

1. Application of computational phylogenetics to cancer and other biomedical research topics.
2. Modeling and analysis of aging-related gene expression regulation.

Here are a list of my current topics:

1. Computational methods for spectratyping.
2. Integrative and exploratory analysis of genomic, evolutionary, and functional data.
3. Novel computational methods for whole genome association studies.
4. Novel computational methods for microarray experimental data, especially cancer, aging, and tissue specificity.
5. Discovery of novel genomic functional motifs.
6. Classification methods and data fusion for clinical data.

The projects will require some programming skills, some basic concepts of biology and likely some mathematics and statistics. You will also have a chance to collaborate with experimental biomedical researchers. If you are not sure, come talk with me. If you have patience and curiosity, this will be a great opportunity to learn these useful skills.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Please see this page for details.

Graduate and undergraduate students

Prospective applicants to PhD programs

please check the GCB program website for more information.