Center for Computational Genomics - CWRU - PEOPLE
Center Co-Directors: Systems analysis of complex biological processes; mouse models of genetically complex human diseases.

Information science and technology: pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, genetic algorithms, signal pathways, associative memories, search and retrieval, predictive estimation.

Founding Members of the Center:

Query languages and query processing, data models, and index structures in object oriented databases, multimedia databases, and temporal databases.

Genome pathways databases, bioinformatics data exchange, web querying, database security, electronic books.

Bootstrapping, model selection and local learning within the context of tree-based regression and classification applications, development of statistical methodology for the design and analysis of DNA microarray experiments.

Statistical methods in epidemiology and genetics, prostate cancer genetic epidemiology, multilevel modeling.

Faculty members of the Center:

Comparative genomics, complex traits and models of human disease.

Systems engineering and mathematics.

Nonlinear and stochastic control theory and applications. Model-based fault detection and diagnosis.

Large scale systems. Policy analysis. Substainable development.

Aquatic systems ecology.

Genetic epidemiology, statistical genomics, respiratory disease and fetal growth.

Theoretical radiation biology, biochemical system analyses of microarray data.

Graduate Students, Fellows, and Postdocs:

    Sheila Ernest

Sheila is a graduate student in Nadeau lab. Genetic and pharmacological perturbation analysis of the folate and homocysteine pathways.

    Simim Hu

Simin Hu who is a Ph.D. candidate in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Departmnet working with Dr. Rao. She will be assisting Dr. Rao on his research on microarrays and is being supported through the Center this coming year.
    Toshimori Kitami
Toshi is a graduate student in Nadeau lab. Functional annotation (structure, content and evolution) of the folate and homocysteine pathways.
    Fredrick Schumacher
Fred is a fellow working in the Witte lab on genomic epidemiology of prostate cancer.
    Murat Tasan 
Murat works with Dr.s Ozsoyoglu as well as Sahinalp and Nadeau on sequence proximity search and visualization of metabolic pathways.
    Cheryl Thompson
Cheryl is a fellow working with Drs. Ozsoyoglu and Witte on genetic epidemiology and data mining.

Past members:

    Alexander V Alekseyenko
Former member of with Sahinalp and Eichler Labs.

    Vicky Choi

Vicky was a postdoc working in Eichler Lab on sequence assembly.
    Greg Cox
Former member of Sahinalp group. Now at NetGenics.
    Jai Macker
Former member of Sahinalp group. Now at dealer.com.

    Gurkan Bebek

Gurkan is a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Sahinalp.

    Can Alkan

Ph.D. student working with Cenk Sahinalp and Evan Eichler on computational analysis of large scale genome duplication, and heuristics for phylogenetic tree construction.

    Jeffrey A. Bailey 

Jeff is a postdoc with Eichler lab working primarily on computational analysis of large scale genome duplications.

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