Interests of the Biomedical Informatics Team

Richard Scheuermann, PhD, Director
Statistical methods in gene expression analysis
Flow cytometry data clustering, biological network analysis, comparative genomics of infectious disease pathogens
HLA genetic analysis of autoimmune disease
Knowledge representation approaches, data standards, and biomedical ontology development

Ruben Amarasingham, MD
Clinical Information Technology Assessment and Evaluation
Healthcare Delivery for Indigent Populations
Quality Improvement Methods in Healthcare

Dipti Ranganathan, MS
Software development, information technology, data mining, data management, and operations research

Lindsay G. Cowell, PhD
Biomedical ontology development and knowledge representation
Natural language processing
Haplotype association mapping
Somatic diversification of antigen receptor encoding genes
Antigen receptor repertoire analysis

David Karp, MD, PhD
Ability of the complement system to regulate immune responses
Development of Data Sharing Methods in Biology
Genetics of human autoimmune diseases
Role of oxidative stress in the regulation of immunity

Yu (Max) Qian, PhD
Computational methods and systems for flow cytometry data analysis
Generic data model for flow cytometry and immunological data management
Information visualization for navigating and exploring biomedical studies
Data mining and knowledge discovery
Remote sensing satellite image analysis
Applied parallel computing for high-throughput data analysis
Machine learning and natural language processing for biomedical literature knowledge mining and management