Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The gut microbiome and resistome in clinical transplant studies
Doctoral Candidate Name: Ke Zeng Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: April 1, 2025 – 1:30 PM Defense Location: CIPHER Room 402 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Anthony Fodor Committee Members: Dr. Apryl Alexander, Dr. Jun-Tao Guo, Dr. ZhengChang Su Abstract: This dissertation investigates the interactions between the gut microbiome and hematopoietic stem […]
Harnessing Computational Tools and Complex Biological Data for Environmental and Health Applications
Doctoral Candidate Name: Yunfei Liao Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: April 2, 2025 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: BINF 408 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Elizabeth Cooper Committee Members: Dr. Anthony Fodor, Dr. Denis Jacob Machado, Dr. Razvan Bunescu Abstract: West Nile Virus (WNV) remains a persistent public health threat in North […]
RESOLVING VIRAL AND METABOLIC PROXIES WITHIN MODERN MICROBIALITES
Doctoral Candidate Name: Madeline Bellanger Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: February 26, 2025 – 1:00 PM Defense Location: BINF 408 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Richard Allen White III Committee Members: Dr. Daniel Janies, Dr. Morgan Carter, Dr Robert Reid, Dr. Adam Reitzel Abstract: Modern microbialites are benthic organosedimentary structures that provide […]
Monitoring the Spread of Human Respiratory Viruses: Integrating Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and Target Capture Sequencing
Doctoral Candidate Name: Lauren Roppolo Brazell Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: November 8, 2024 – 3:30 PM Defense Location: Bioinformatics Building, Room 305 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Cynthia Gibas Committee Members: Dr. Jessica Schlueter; Dr. Anthony Fodor; Dr. Alex Dornburg, Dr. Alan Dow Abstract: Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a […]
UNDERSTANDING TRANSCRIPTIONAL RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CUES IN MODEL ORGANISMS USING FULL-LENGTH SINGLE CELL RNA-SEQ
Doctoral Candidate Name: Yangqi Su Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: June 26, 2024 – 9:30 AM Defense Location: Bioinformatics Building, room 105 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Zhengchang Su Committee Members: Dr. Juntao Guo, Dr. Way Sung, Dr. Shan Yan Abstract: Recent advancements in single-cell RNA sequencing have revolutionized our understanding of […]
Landscape and Architecture of cis-regulatory Modules and Prediction of Their Functional Types, States and Target Genes
Doctoral Candidate Name: Sisi Yuan Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: June 25, 2024 – 10:00 AM Defense Location: Bioinformatics 408 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Zhengchang Su Committee Members: Dr. Abbe LaBella, Dr. Jun-tao Guo, Dr. Bao-Hua Song Abstract: Cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) can function as enhancers and/or silencers to promote and repress, […]
Genomic Epidemiology for Malaria: Novel application of geospatial methods, new genomic markers, and population-level insights
Doctoral Candidate Name: Alfred Hubbard Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: May 21, 2024 – 9:30 AM Defense Location: Bioinformatics 408 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Daniel Janies Committee Members: Dr. Elizabeth Cooper, Dr. Alex Dornburg, Dr. Jean-Claude Thill Abstract: Genomic epidemiology is the use of genetic data to characterize and explain disease […]
Optimization and Validation of SARS-CoV2 Sequencing from Clinical and Wastewater Samples
Doctoral Candidate Name: Jannatul Ferdous Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: April 9, 2024 – 11:00 AM Defense Location: BINF 305 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Jessica Schlueter Committee Members: Dr. Cynthia Gibas, Dr. Anthony Fodor, Dr. Wenwu Tang Abstract: The emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in December 2019 […]
Casting a wider net: Using ray-finned fish genomes to gain novel insights into vertebrate molecular evolution
Doctoral Candidate Name: Rittika Mallik Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: April 9, 2024 – 2:00 PM Defense Location: Bioinformatics Room 402 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Alex Dornburg Committee Members: Dr. Cynthia Gibas, Dr. Anthony Fodor, Dr. Jun Tao Guo, Dr Adam Reitzel Abstract: The past decade has provided unprecedented insights into […]
Draft genome of hairy sea cucumber Sclerodactyla briareus, a model to study gene families for tissue regeneration and host-viral interactions in echinoderms
Doctoral Candidate Name: Varnika Mittal Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Defense Date and Time: February 16, 2024 – 9:00 AM Defense Location: Bioinformatics Building, Room 218 Committee chair’s Name: Dr. Daniel Janies, Dr. Robert Reid Committee Members: Dr. Jessica Schlueter, Dr. Rick White, Dr. Adam Reitzel Abstract: Echinoderms are highly regenerative animals that share a […]