Computational Biology Training Track Faculty

Harold R. (Skip) Garner - Automation and instrumentation for genomics research; DNA sequence analysis; computational biology.

Steven Altschuler - Design principles underlying the spatial-temporal organization of molecular networks. 

Johann Deisenhofer - Structural biology, membrane proteins, protein stability and function.

Christian Forst - Research in computational systems biology. Interested in host-pathogen interactions, drug response, drug development and emergence of infectious diseases as well as metagenomic analysis and multi-level biosystems comparisons.

Nick Grishin - Computational biology; analysis of protein sequences and structures.

Zbyszek Otwinowski - Three-dimensional structures of biological molecules.

Alexander Pertsemlidis - MicroRNA regulation of lung cancer pathogenesis and genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease.

Rama Rangananathan - Structural basis for signal processing in Drosophila photoreceptors.

Elliott Ross - Mechanisms of G-protein signaling; amplification, selectivity, response timing; structure/function of GTPase-activating proteins and associated receptors.

Richard Scheuermann - Bioinformatics and computational biology as data mining tools allowing hypothesis development based on large data sets; testing these hypotheses using directed wet lab experimentation.

Gürol Süel - Functional role of biochemical "noise" in cellular differentiation.

Marc Turcotte- Systems biology modeling and simulation; complex systems (nonlinear dynamics); graph, network and control theory. 

Lani Wu - Design principles underlying the formation of cellular polarity. 

Xian-Jin Xie - Model diagnosis and goodness-of-fit tests; survival analysis and categorical data analysis; methods on correlated data. 

Chin-Rang Yang - Computational reconstruction of biological networks; silico biology; biological data mining.