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The focus of research in the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is microarray data analysis, biomarker identification, drug target discovery, functional genomics and proteomics, coding sequence analysis, cross-validation analysis, forensic applications of genetics and the analysis of genetic trait inheritance. Other areas of specialization include analyzing the effects of radiotherapy, cell population dynamics, molecular confirmation studies, modeling biological processes, computer-assisted diagnosis, computer-assisted image interpretation, statistical graphics and the analysis of cell cycle regulatory proteins.
John N. Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Contents
Bioinformatics Group
Bioinformatics Mission Statement
Bioinformatics Clinics
Bioinformatics Workshops
Bioinformatics Faculty
Computational Biology Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Statistical Analysts
Programmers
Support Staff
Bioinformatics Group
The Bioinformatics Group within the department serves as a component of the Cancer Genomics Program at M. D. Anderson. The Cancer Genomics Program is directed by Stanley Hamilton, M.D. The Cancer Genomics Core Laboratory is directed by Wei Zhang, Ph.D. The Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is chaired by John N. Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D., and Donald A. Berry is the head of the Division of Quantitative Sciences. These groups are indebted to valuable contributions made by the personnel of the Genomics Core Lab.
Bioinformatics Mission Statement
The Bioinformatics Group will develop statistically rigorous solutions for the design and analysis of experiments within the Cancer Genomics Program, and will provide data analysis, acquisition, curation and retrieval tools to complement the laboratory services offered by the Cancer Genomics Program.
Bioinformatics Clinics
Bioinformatics clinics are held Wednesdays from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in FCT5.5049 (at the department's new location in the Pickens Academic Tower). For questions about microarray data analysis, statistical interpretation and other bioinformatics-related computational issues, meet with a statistical analyst during one of the clinics listed below.
Please contact the on-duty statistical analyst or check in with an administrative assistant in the Division of Quantitative Sciences on the 4th floor of the Pickens Academic Tower (FCT4.6000).
Clinic Schedule
| Date and Location |
Statistical Analyst |
Wednesday, July 2
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Spyros Tsavachidis
stsavac@mdanderson.org
713-563-4278 |
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Wednesday, July 9
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Lianchun Xiao
lxiao@mdanderson.org
713-794-4185 |
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Wednesday, July 16
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Wenbin Liu
wliu@mdanderson.org
713-794-3076 |
Wednesday, July 23
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Hui Yao
hyao@mdanderson.org
713-745-6835 |
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Wednesday, July 30
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Zhenlin Ju
zju@mdanderson.org
713-792-9888 |
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Wednesday, August 6
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Caimiao Wei
caiwei@mdanderson.org
713-563-4297 |
Wednesday, August 13
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Nianxiang Zhang
nzhang@mdanderson.org
713-792-1077 |
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Wednesday, August 20
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
Jiexin Zhang
jiexinzhang@mdanderson.org
713-794-4174 |
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Wednesday, August 27
Pickens Academic Tower
FCT5.5049 |
E Lin
eli@mdanderson.org
713-563-4275 |
Bioinformatics Workshops
Bioinformatics workshops / seminars are generally held Mondays from 11:00 a.m. to noon in the AT&T Classroom (FC1.2002) on the first floor of the M. D. Anderson Faculty Center or in the Telehealth Conference Room (ACB1.2345) on the first floor of the Mays Building. These venues permit the group to offer video conferencing with colleagues in outlying areas of the M. D. Anderson campus.
For additional information about a workshop, contact:
Ron Bouchard
crboucha@mdanderson.org
Executive Assistant
713-794-4930
2008 Workshop Schedule
| Date and Location |
Speaker |
Topic |
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Monday
January14
11:00 a.m.
CPB8.3408 Room 6 |
Keith Baggerly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Bioinformatics
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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Cell Lines, Microarrays, Drugs and Disease: Trying to Predict Response to Chemotherapy |
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Monday
February 4
11:00 a.m.
ACB1.2345 |
Ana Teresa Vasconcelos, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Laboratory (LABINFO)
National Library of Scientific Computation
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
CTpedia Database and Other Bioinformatic Tools Developed at LABINFO / LNCC
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Monday
March 17
11:00 a.m.
ACB1.2345 |
Eberhard Voit, Ph.D.
Director, Integrative Biosystems Institute
Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Georgia |
Systems Biology and Its Role in Predictive Health and Personalized Medicine |
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Monday
March 24
1:30 p.m.
HMB13.356 |
Mark Adams, Ph.D.
Senior Associate
Booz Allen Hamilton |
caBIG™ Status and Current Directions
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Monday
April 7
11:00 a.m.
ACB1.2345 |
Sheng Zhong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Statistics, Computer Science and Biophysics
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois |
A Model for Cross-Species
Co-expression Analysis: An Application to Aging Transcription Programs
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Tuesday
May 13
10:00 a.m.
Conference Room CPB8
Rooms 7 & 8 |
Yuval Kluger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell Biology
New York University School of Medicine
New York, New York |
State Dependent Gene Regulatory Networks
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Monday
June 2
11:30 a.m.
ACB1.2345 |
Aleksander Milosavljevic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas |
Mapping the Genome of the MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Line and the Geneboree Discovery System |
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Monday June 9
12:00 p.m.
ACB1.2345 |
Ari Kahn, Ph.D.
Contractor, Center for
Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland |
The Cancer Genome Atlas |
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Friday
June 13
12:00 p.m.
CPB 8th Flr
Rms 7 & 8 |
Eric Karl Neumann, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Clinical Semantic Group
Fellow, MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Integrating the Semantic Web with Translational Research Infrastructure |
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Monday June 16
11:00 a.m.
ACB1.2345 |
Shannon Neeley, Ph.D.
Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Normalization Methods for Reverse Phase Protein Array Data |
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Thursday
June 19
11:00 a.m.
R11.1100 Rooms 6 and 7 |
David States, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Human Genetics
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Challenges in Biomedical Data Integration: Bringing Proteomics to Genomics to Identify Novel Gene Products |
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Monday
July 7
12:15 p.m.
FCT4.5043 |
Shoudan Liang, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
Genomewide location analysis: from chIP-on-chip to chIP-seq |
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Monday
July 14
11:00 a.m.
FCT4.5043 |
Angel W. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Mechanisms regulating mononuclear phagocyte production |
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Monday
July 21
12:15 p.m.
FC1.2002 |
Romesh Stanislaus, Ph.D.
Instructor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center |
XML Data Standards in Integrating Proteomic Data |
Bioinformatics Faculty
Jonas Almeida, Ph.D.
Professor
E-mail:jalmeida@mdanderson.org
Keith Baggerly, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E-mail: kabagg@mdanderson.org
Kevin R. Coombes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E-mail: kcoombes@mdanderson.org
Jianhua Hu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: jhu@mdanderson.org
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: yuanji@mdanderson.org
Romesh Stanislaus, Ph.D.
Instructor
E-mail:rstanisl@mdanderson.org
Jing Wang, Ph.D.
Instructor
E-mail: jingwang@mdanderson.org
Li Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: lzhangli@mdanderson.org
Computational Biology Faculty
Bradley M. Broom, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E-mail: bmbroom@mdanderson.org
Shoudan Liang, Ph.D.
Professor
E-mail: shoudan@mdanderson.org Mandri N. Obeyesekere, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
E-mail: mobeyese@mdanderson.org
Susan L. Tucker, Ph.D.
Professor
E-mail: sltucker@mdanderson.org
Ming Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: mzhang@mdanderson.org
Affiliated Faculty
Kenneth R. Hess, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
E-mail: khess@mdanderson.org
Kim-Anh Do, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
E-mail: kim@mdanderson.org
J. Jack Lee, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
E-mail: jjlee@mdanderson.org
R. Allen White, Ph.D.
Professor
E-mail: allen@mdanderson.org
Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Pathology Research
E-mail: is@ieee.org
Statistical Analysts
Roland L. Bassett, M.S.
Senior Statistical Analyst
rlbasset@mdanderson.org
Lixia Diao, M.S.
Research Statistical Analyst
Zhenlin Ju, Ph.D.
Senior Statistical Analyst
zju@mdanderson.org
E Lin, M.S.
Research Statistical Analyst
eli@mdanderson.org
Wenbin Liu, Ph.D.
Research Statistical Analyst
wliu@mdanderson.org
Li Shen, M.S.
Statistical Analyst
Spyros Tsavachidis, M.Sc.
Statistical Analyst
stsavac@mdanderson.org
Caimiao Wei, Ph.D.
Principal Statistical Analyst
caiwei@mdanderson.org
Lianchun Xiao, M.S.
Research Statistical Analyst
lxiao@mdanderson.org
Hui Yao, Ph.D.
Senior Statistical Analyst
hyao@mdanderson.org
Jiexin Zhang, M.S.
Research Statistical Analyst
jiexinzhang@mdanderson.org
Nianxiang Zhang, Ph.D.
Statistical Analyst
nzhang@mdanderson.org
Support Staff
Ron Bouchard
Executive Assistant
crboucha@mdanderson.org
713-794-4930
713-792-4262 (fax)
Davida Danforth
Administrative Assistant
dddanfor@mdanderson.org
713-794-4934
Yolanda Vidaurri
Administrative Assistant
yvidaurri@mdanderson.org
713-563-4244
Updated July 15, 2008 |
