 | Dr. Ann Loraine | Dr. Ann Loraine is an Associate Professor in the UNC Charlotte Bioinformatics and Genomics Department. Her current studies focus on alternative splicing in A. thaliana. Her lab produces Integrated Genome Browser (IGB), software designed to visualize genomic data.
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 | Dr. Anthony Fodor | Anthony Fodor is an Assistant Professor in the department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte. He holds a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Washington. He has worked as a Java developer in several small startups as well as a Bioinformatics Scientist at the Immunex Corporation. He has extensive experience in both academic and industrial settings in the analysis and interpretation of the complex, multi-factorial datasets of post-genomic biology. In addition to initiating and participating in numerous studies that have linked the state of the human microbial community to health and disease, he has been an active participant in the data analysis team of the Human Microbiome Project.
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 | Dr. Cory Brouwer | Dr. Cory R. Brouwer is the Director of the Bioinformatics Services Division (BiSD) and Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Brouwer and his team provide a wide range of bioinformatics and computational biology services to the NCRC, UNC Charlotte and surrounding area life sciences community. |
 | Dr. Huidong Shi | Dr. Huidong Shi is an associate professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Georgia Health Science University, Augusta Georgia. He is a member of the Molecular Oncology Program at GHSU Cancer Center. Dr. Shi obtained his PhD in 1999 from Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan and completed his post-doctoral training at University of Missouri-Columbia with Dr. Tim Huang in 2003. Prior to moving to the Medical College of Georgia in 2009, he was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. Dr. Shi was named Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar in 2010. Dr. Shi’s research interests are in the area of epigenomics, and most of his work focuses on developing high-throughput technologies for dissecting the complex epigenetic regulation in normal and cancer cells. His early research work includes the development of Expressed CpG Island Sequence Tags (ECISTs) microarray, and the Methylation Specific Oligonucleotide (MSO) microarray techniques for high-throughput DNA methylation analysis. Dr. Shi’s laboratory is currently interested in developing genome-wide bisulfite sequencing methods based on the next-generation sequencing platform. Dr. Shi’s research is supported by grants from National Cancer Institute, Department of Defense, and the Epigenomics Roadmap program from National Institute of Health, USA.
http://www.georgiahealth.edu/cancer/people/hshi.html
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 | Dr. Jeremy Goecks | Jeremy Goecks is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Departments of Biology and Math & Computer Science at Emory University. His research interests include (a) computational methods and infrastructure for biomedical research and (b) integrative analyses to understand genomic regulation dynamics. He is a core member of the Galaxy team. Galaxy is a popular Web-based platform for performing accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biomedical research. Jeremy leads the development of Galaxy's collaboration and visualization features as well as its transcriptome analysis tools. Jeremy earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. with Honors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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 | Dr. Justin Choi | Dr. Justin Choi is an assistant professor of Biostatistics in Georgia Health Science University, Augusta Georgia. He is a member of the Molecular Oncology Program at GHSU Cancer Center. Dr. Choi obtained his PhD in 2004 from Pusan National University, South Korea and completed his post-doctoral training at Indiana University, Bloomington with Dr. Sun Kim in 2005. Prior to moving to the Medical College of Georgia in 2011, he was an associate director of Bioinformatics at The Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Choi’s research interests are in the area of computational genomics / epigenomics and bioinformatics. Most of his work focuses on developing computational algorithms and pipelines to analyze NGS data for various biological applications. His early research work includes the development of algorithms for whole genome alignment and whole genome assembly validation.
Dr. Choi’s laboratory is currently interested in developing computational approaches for genome-wide bisulfite sequencing methods based on the next-generation sequencing platform. http://www.georgiahealth.edu/cancer/people/jchoi.html
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 | Dr. Mark Wilson | Mark R. Wilson is the Director of the Forensic Science Program at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C. Dr. Wilson spent 23 years as a Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent in the F.B.I. Most of this time was spent working in DNA analysis in the Laboratory Division. Dr. Wilson was heavily involved in the development, validation, and eventual acceptance of human mitochondrial DNA in forensic science.
Link to Forensic Science Program at WCU: http://www.wcu.edu/4429.asp
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 | Dr. Ra’ad Gharaibeh | Dr. Ra’ad Gharaibeh is a Research Associate Scientist at the Bioinformatics Services Division in the Dept. of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Gharaibeh holds a Ph. D. in Bioinformatics from UNC Charlotte. His PhD research involved the influence of biophysical molecular properties on microarray data analysis. He is involved in several NGS projects ranging from de novo assembly to Cancer Genomics. http://bigscience.uncc.edu/directory/rgharaib
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 | Dr. Shannon Schlueter | Dr. Shannon Schlueter received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from Iowa State University in 2006. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at Purdue University before accepting a faculty position in the department of computer and information technology at Purdue. In June of 2009, Dr. Schlueter joined the faculty in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at UNC-Charlotte. Dr. Schlueter's research is focused on the application of data mining and computational pattern recognition in the field of genome informatics. This research includes algorithm and software development for genome annotation as well as predictive modeling of biomolecule function and involvement in transcriptional gene regulation. Dr. Schlueter's molecular genetics research laboratory is currently investigating genomic binding site selection of a number of transcription factors.
http://bigscience.uncc.edu/directory/sschluet
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