Master of Science in Bioinformatics
Offered jointly by Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin

 

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2002

Name

Current Position

Xiong, Yanping

 

2003

Name

Current Position

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

 

2004

Name

Current Position

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

2005

Name

Current Position

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. HessnerAccurate 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:  Sequence Resources at the Rat Genome Database (RGD), published at: http://www.rgd.mcw.edu

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:

Pharmgenix™: A combinatorial rat panel for predictive toxicology
            http://www.neurophys.wisc.edu/~cozzi/stpabs23-P53-04.html

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.

 

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