Alumni

Note: This information is in the process of being updated and corrected.

2008

Jennifer Bills
Scott Bolte - GE Healthcare
Kurt Heilman - Nimblegen
Akshat Kapoort


2007

Sridevi Prithivi
Hetalbahen Modi
Andrew Vallejos - Medical College of Wisconsin


2006

Jonathan Fritz
Michael Klotz
Meeta Oberoi


2005
Battu, Madhuri - UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, Intern
Bazeley, Peter - Database Specialist, Research at the University of Ohio
Indap, Amit- Computer Programmer, Bustamante Lab Dept. of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Marur, Vasant - Sr. Research Associate, Burke Medical Research Institute, White Plains, NY
Talla, Neeraja - OPT (Optional Practical Training), visa status, looking for a job
Upadhaya, Minesh - InfoTech, Quality Assurance Engineer

Graduate Student Publications, Achievements, Awards, and Presentations

Amit Indap:
PAPERS:

  • Analysis of Concordance of Different Haplotype Block Partitioning Algorithms Amit R. Indap, Gabor T. Marth, Craig A. Struble, Peter Tonellato, Michael Olivier; BMC Bioinformatics (under review) 2005


Vasant Marur:
POSTERS:

  • SVM Based Approach to Curate Biomedical Literature presented at Bio-IT World, Boston, MA in May 2005.


Bixia Xiang:
PAPERS:

  • Xujing Wang, Shuang Jia, Lisa Meyer, Bixia Xiang, Li-Yen Chen, Nan Jiang, Carol Moreno, Howard J. Jacob, Soumitra Ghosh, and Martin J. Hessner,Accurate gene expression measurements by cDNA microarrays utilizing TDAV; Submitted, 2005.
  • Bixia Xiang, Microarray Data Analysis (--making full use of microarray data), 2004, Bioinformatics Thesis. Marquette University.
  • Bixia Xiang, D.F. Karnosky, Functional genomics for foresters: a practical guide to modern techniques for genetic improvement of trees, (2005) Northern Journal of Applied forestry. (In press)

POSTERS:

  • Sonia L Sugg, Donna M McAllister, Richard A Komorowski, Bixia Xiang, Martin J Hessner, Joel Shilyansky, Tina W Yen and Stuart D Wilson. Use of Tissue Microarray to Evaluate Clinical Utility of Genes Overexpressed in a Metastatic Thyroid Cancer Cell Line. The Endocrine Society's 87th Annual Meeting.2005. San Diego, USA
  • Bixia Xiang, Lily Du, Martin J. Hessner, Nan Jiang, Ashley Kappes, Joel Shilyansky, Michael J. Demeure, Stuart D. Wilson, Sonia L. Sugg, Altered gene expression in metastatic vs primary follicular thyroid carcinoma cell lines by cDNA microarray, The Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium. March 18-21, 2004. New York, USA
  • Bixia Xiang, Nan Jiang, Lily Du, Ashley Kappes, Champa Bhattacharyya, Martin J. Hessner, Joel Shilyansky, and Sonia L. Sugg. Microarray Gene Expression Comparing Primary and Metastatic Thyroid Cancer Cell Lines. 2003 NCRR BioInformatics Conference: Genetic Analysis of Complex Diseases & Human Populations. September 19 - 21, 2003 Chicago, Illinois, USA.


Victor M. Ruotti:
ABSTRACT:

BOOK CHAPTER:

  • Zebrafish 2nd Edition: Automated analysis of conserved syntenies for the zebrafish genome. John Postlethwait, Victor Ruotti, Peter J. Tonellato. Methods Cell Biol. 2004;77:255-71.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • DeNovoID: a web-based tool for identifying peptides from sequence and mass tags deduced from de novo peptide sequencing by mass spectroscopy. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33
  • ProMoST (Protein Modification Screening Tool): A Web Based Tool for Mapping Protein Modifications on 2 Dimensional Gels. Brian D. Halligan, Victor Ruotti, Weihong Jin, Scott Laffoon, Simon N. Twigger, Edward A. Dratz. Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32
  • ChromSorter PC: A Database of Chromosomal Regions Associated with Human Prostate Cancer. Cancer Research Submitted.Etim, A., Zhou, G., Wen, X., Liu, H., Ruotti, V., Twigger, S., Jin, W., Matysiak, B., Mathis, J., Tonellato, P.J., and M.W. Datta. – BMC Genomics. 2004 Apr 28;5(1):27
  • Integrative Genomics: In Silico Coupling of Rat Physiology and Complex Traits with Mouse and Human Data. Simon N. Twigger, Jeff Nie, Victor Ruotti, Jiaming Yu, Dan Chen, Dawei Li, Jed Mathis, Vijay Narayanasamy, Gopal Gopinathrao, Dean Pasko, Mary Shimoyama, Norberto de la Cruz, Susan Bromberg, Anne E. Kwitek, Howard J. Jacob and Peter J, Tonellato. Genome Research. April 2004
  • Using Bioinformatics to Leverage Animal Models in the Identification of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers. Datta, M.W., Twigger, S., Chen, D., Etim, A., Schlicht, M., Jiang, N.,Mathis, J., Ruotti, V., Nie, J., Lu, J., Weng, X., Liu, H., Zhou, G., Jin,W., Shimoyama, M., Hessner, M., Suckow, M., Pollard, M., Jacob, H., and P.J. Tonellato. Cancer Research Submitted – May 2003

Invited Lectures, Workshops:

  • 5th International Conference of Zebrafish Development and Genetics Madison –Wisconsin 2002
    Lecture: Virtual Comparative Maps between Zebrafish, Human, Rat and Mouse
  • O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference San Diego – California 2003
    Abstract: Automated Construction of Comparative Maps
  • Genome Informatics – Cold Spring Harbor
    Cold Spring Harbor – New York 2003


Moltu Joseph Guy:
PRESENTATIONS:


Luobin Yang:
PRESENTATIONS:

  • "ISU Bioinformatics Computing Using an Apple Cluster". Idaho High Performance Computing Workshop 2004.
  • "Bioinformatics Workflows using Taverna". ISU Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Workshop. 2005.

POSTERS:

  • "Computational Options for Bioinformatics Research in Evolutionary Biology". International Conference on Computational Sciences (2) 2005: 68-75.


2004
Dharmanolla, Chittithalli - Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, R.A.
Xiang, Bixia
Mazzari, Darrel A. - Ph.D. Program, MU - BME
Ruotti, Victor M. - WiCell Research Institute - UW-Madison – Computational Biologist


2003
Joseph Guy, Moltu - Worked at PhysioGenix as a bioinformatician for one year; has applied to medical school
Qian, Min
Wen, Xinyu A. - Prostate Biocomputing Center, Emory University School of Medicine
Yang, Luobin - Bioinformatics Specialist, Idaho State University
Polasa, Ramakumari
Tai, Lung-Wen


2002
Xiong, Yanping