Students

Advisory Committee
Russell Malmberg, Chair
Jonathan Arnold
Jeff Bennetzen
Liming Cai
Bi-Cheng Wang
William "Barney" Whitman

Colloquium Coordinator
Shaying Zhao

Curriculum Committee
Paul Schliekilman, Chair
Jeffrey Dean
Jim Leebens-Mack
Jan Mrazek
Rondhane Rekaya

Computing Committee
Jessica Kissinger, Chair
Jan Mrazek
Heinz-Bernd Schuttler

Graduate Coordinator
Liming Cai

Graduate Committee
Liming Cai, Chair
Clairborn Glover
Paul Schliekelman
Shaying Zhao

Symposium Program Committee
Steve Dalton
Jessie Kissinger
Krys Kochut
Jan Mrazek
Shaying Zhao  

Director:

Ying Xu, Ph.D.
Regents-GRA Eminent Scholar and Professor
Area of Research: prediction and modeling of biological networks, protein structure prediction and modeling, biological data mining, and in silico biology
Telephone:	(706) 542-7783
Fax:	(706) 542-7782
Email:	xyn@bmb.uga.edu
Web:	http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/~xyn

Graduate Coordinator:

Liming Cai, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: algorithms for computational biology, structural bioinformatics.
Telephone:	(706) 542-6081
E-mail:	cai@cs.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.cs.uga.edu/~cai

Office staff:

Sharon James
Administrative Associate II
Telephone:	(706)542-7783
E-mail:	sharon49@uga.edu

Fatma Sena Arpinar, Ph.D.
Scientific Computing Professional
Telephone:	(706) 542-6092
E-mail:	sena@csbl.bmb.uga.edu

Full Members:

Sammy Aggrey, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Poultry Science
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-1354
E-mail:
Web:	http://department.caes.uga.edu/poultry/faculty/aggrey/aggrey.htm

Jon Amster ,Ph.D
Professor, Chemistry
Area of Research: Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics
Telephone:	(706) 542-2001
E-mail:	jamster@uga.edu
Web:	http://amstersgi.chem.uga.edu/html/jon_amster.html

Jonathan Arnold, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542 1449
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.genetics.uga.edu/faculty/bio-Arnold.html

Jeff Bennetzen, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Area of Research: analyze genome structure in various grasses, including maize and wheat. DNA sequence analysis and annotation.
Telephone:	(706) 542-3698
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.genetics.uga.edu/jlblab/Index.html

Suchi Bhandarkar, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: collaborative research pertaining to applications of image analysis, pattern recognition, parallel computing and machine learning to bioinformatics problems.
Telephone:	(706) 542-1082
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.cs.uga.edu/~suchi

Marie-Michele Cordonnier-Pratt, Ph.D
Senior Research Scientis, Laboratory for Genomics and Bioinformatics-ORS/OVPR
Area of Research:bioinformatics with focus on database construction, development of bioinformatics pipelines in support of wet-lab activities, creation of visualization and data mining tools and their delivery via the internet; objectives include support of high-throughput DNA sequencing, gene discovery and expression, sequence annotation, and discovery and analysis of sequence polymorphisms.
Telephone:	(706) 542-1841
E-mail:	mpratt@plantbio.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.fungen.org

Jeffrey F. D. Dean, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Warnell School of Forest Resources
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-1710
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.fungen.org/Projects/Pine/Pine.htm

Claiborne V. Glover, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Genetics
Area of Research: Regulation of cellular function by protein phosphorylation. Protein/nucleic acid interaction. Functional genomics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Telephone:	(706) 542 1769
E-mail:
Web:	http://bmbiris.bmb.uga.edu/glover/glover.html

Mark W. Jackwood, Ph.D.
Professor, Avian Medicince
Area of Research: sequencing avian coronaviruses and examining evolutionary trends and relationship with SARS-CoV.
Telephone:	(706) 542-5475
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.biomed.uga.edu/mem_jackwood_mark.htm

Woncheol Jang, PhD.
Assistant Professor, Health Administration, Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Area of Research: Gene expression data analysis, Mass spectrometry data analysis, Data mining, Multiple testing, Functional data analysis, Nonparametric inference
Telephone:	(706) 543-8923
E-mail:	jang@uga.edu
Web:	http://jang.myweb.uga.edu/

Dan Kannan, Ph.D.
Professor, Mathematics
Area of Research: genealogical path process approach to protein structures.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2211
E-mail:	kannan@math.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.math.uga.edu

Anna C. Karls, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research: pseudoalteromonas atlantica genome sequencing.
Telephone:	(706) 583-0822
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/karls.htm

Caner Kazanci, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Joint in Department of Mathematics and Faculty of Engineering
Area of Research: Modeling, simulation and analysis of biochemical pathways and ecological systems. Universal properties of biological and ecological networks, systems biology. Numerical algorithms for deterministic and stochastic simulation of large biological systems.
Telephone:	(706)542-0863
E-mail:	caner@uga.edu
Web:	http://www.math.uga.edu/~caner

Jessica Kissinger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Area of Research: comparative genomics, data integration, data mining, genome databases, web services.
Telephone:	(706) 542-6562
E-mail:	jkissing@uga.edu
Web:	http://www.genetics.uga.edu/faculty/bio-kissinger.html http:mango.ctegd.uga.edu/jkissingLab/

Krzysztof J. Kochut, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: distributed processing (worklfow systems and specification of application-level protocols), databases, and genomics.
Telephone:	(706) 542 3455
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.cs.uga.edu/~kochut

Eileen Kraemer, PhD.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706)542-5799
E-mail	eileen@cs.uga.edu
Web:	http://webster.cs.uga.edu/~eileen

Sidney R. Kushner, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Area of Research: post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes.
Telephone:	(706) 542-8000
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.genetics.uga.edu/kushner

Jim Leebens-Mack, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Plant Biology
Area of Research: Phylogenomics, Gene Family and Genome Evolution, Evolutin of Plant Mating Systems and Sex Chromosomes.
Telephone:	(706) 583-5573
E-mail:	jleebensmack@plantbio.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.plantbio.uga.edu/~jleebensmack/JLMmain.html

Russell Malmberg, Ph.D.
Department Head, Plant Biology
Area of Research:structure prediction and database searching for RNAs, phylogenetic tree construction.
Telephone:	(706) 542-1850
E-mail:	russell@plantbio.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.plantbio.uga.edu/~russell

John Miller, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: Database Systems, Modeling and Simulation, Web Services/Workflow
Telephone:	(706) 542 3440
E-mail:
Web:	http://chief.cs.uga.edu/~jam

Mary Ann Moran, Ph. D.
Professor, Marine Sciences
Area of Research: genomic approach to sulfur biotransformations in the ocean; genome sequence of a marine roseobacter. Bacterial regulation of organic sulfur cycling in the ocean: genomic approach.
Telephone:	(706) 542-6481
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.marcsi.uga.edu/s_pomeroyi/

Jan Mrazek, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Insitute of Bioinformatics
Area of Research: bioinformatics, discovery and interpretations of patterns in DNA and protein sequences, and comparative genomics.
Telephone:	(706)
E-mail:
Web:

Torsten Ochsenreiter, Ph.D.
Research Faculty (Assistant Prof. Research Track)
Function of RNA editing in Trypanosomes, Evolution of RNA editing in Trypanosomes.
Telephone:	706-583-5480
E-mail:	ochsenreiter@bmb.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.bmb.uga.edu/ochsenreiter/

John Pickering, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Institute of Ecology
Area of Research: Natural history, biodiversity, informatics, field studies, taxonomy, photography.
Telehone:	(706)542-1115
E-Mail	pick@discoverlife.org
Web;	http://www.discoverlife.org

Lee Pratt, Ph.D
Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Laboratory for Genomics and Bioinformatics-ORS/OVPR
Area of Research:gene discovery, annotation, expression, and polymorphism analysis using genomic approaches, including high-throughput DNA sequencing; bioinformatics with focus on database construction, development of bioinformatics pipelines in support of wet-lab activities, creation of visualization and data mining tools and their delivery via the internet.
Telehone:	(706)542-1841
E-Mail	lpratt@plantbio@uga.edu
Web;	http://www.fungen.org

James Prestegard, Ph.D.
Professor, Complex Carbohydrate Center
Area of Research: application of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to the characterization of biologically important systems.
Telephone:	(706) 542-6281
E-mail:
Web:	click here

Khaled Rasheed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: Biomaterials, Modeling, Machine Learning, Biomedicine, Motif Discovery, Translation start Site Prediction
Telephone:	(706) 542-3444
E-mail:	khaled@cs.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.cs.uga.edu/~khaled

Romdhane Rekaya, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Animal Science Research College
Area of Research: Bayesian inferences and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, longitudinal data modeling, categorical data analysis. Microarray Data analysis and Bioinformatics.
Telephone:	(706) 542-0949
E-mail:
Web:	http://nce.ads.uga.edu/~romdhane

John Rose, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Area of Research: X-ray structural biology infrastructure assembled at UGA can be a powerful tool for bringing bioinformatics to t he bench. Analyses of structural realm; role of amino acide sequence in obtaining diffraction quality crystals aimed at pr otein engineering applications.
Telephone:	(706) 542-1750
E-mail:	rose@bc14.bmb.uga.edu
Web:	http://www.bmb.uga.edu/jprose/

Robert Sabatini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Depat. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Area of research:DNA modification and regulations of telomeric regulation gene expression
Telephone	706-542-9806
E-mail:	rsabatini@bmb.uga.edu

Mark Schell, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research: use of comparative genomic analyses to predict physiological and ecological characteristics of bacteria.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2815
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.plant.uga.edu/faculty/schell.htm

Paul Schliekelman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Statistics
Area of Research: experimental design and data analysis methods for using microarrays for mapping complex trait loci. Life history theory for the genome (developing mathematical theory for intra-genomic interactions involving transposable elements and other genomic elements - will involve bioinformatics-type data analysis).
Telephone:	(706) 542-4241
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.stat.uga.edu/faculty/SCHLIEKELMAN/Paul.html

Heinz-Bernd Schuttler, Ph.D.
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Area of Research: computational physics, quantum many-body theory, strongly correlated electron systems, high-temperature superconductivity.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2485
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.physast.uga.edu/people/fac-hbs.html

Amit P. Sheth, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: ontologies, web services, interoperability, information integration, process automation and workflows and analysis.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2310
E-mail:
Web:	http://lsdis.cs.uga.edu/~amit

Lawrence J. Shimkets, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research:annotating genome sequences for Myxococcus xanthus, Kineococcus radiotolerans, and Anaeromyxobacter dehalogenans.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2681
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/shimkets.htm

Anne O. Summers, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research: Genomics and bioinformatics of mobile genetic elements (plasmids, phages, transposons, and integrons) of prokaryotes, including novel methods for optimizing mobile element sequencing and annotation.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2669
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.genetics.uga.edu/faculty/bio-Summers.html

Thiab R. Taha, Ph.D.
Professor, Computer Science
Area of Research: scientific computing and related computer software development, parallel algorithms, symbolic computations, applied mathematics, discrete forms of certain nunlinear wave equations.
Telephone:	(706) 542-3477
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.cs.uga.edu/~thiab

Rick Tarleton, Ph.D.
Professor, Cellular Biology
Area of Research: vaccine discovery in Trypanosoma cruzi. Includes proteomic analysis of T. cruzi using LC-MS/MS, genome annotation and gene selection for cloning and testing as vaccines.
Telephone:	(706) 542-3362
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.ctegd.uga.edu/people_pages/tarleton.html

Brahm Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-0870
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.engr.uga.edu/people/faculty/verma/

Bi Cheng Wang, PhD.
Professor, Eminent Scholar
Area of Research:Structure-function studies by X-ray diffraction, transcription proteins, structural genomics, phasing methods
Telephone:	(706)542-1747
E-mail	wang@bcl1.bmb.uga.edu
Web:

Lance Wells, Ph,D.
Assistant Professor,CCRC, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Chemistry
Area of Research: Proteomics, glycomics, glycoproteomics
Telephone:	(706)542-7806
E-mail	lwells@ccrc.uga.edu
Web:	click here

Susan R. Wessler, Ph.D.
Research Professor, Plant Biology
Area of Research: analyzing the transposable element content of many plant genomes including lotus, medicago, rice, arabidopsis, brassica and populus.
Telephone:	(706) 542-1870
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.plantbio.uga.edu/wesslerlab/

William B. Whitman, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research: annotations of three prokaryotic genomic sequences, Methanocaldococcus jannaschii, Methanococcus maripaludis, and Silicibacter pomeroyii; genomic sequences of Methanothermococcus thermolithotrophicus and Methanoncoccus voltae.
Telephone:	(706) 542-4219
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.arches.uga.edu/~whitman

Robert J. Woods, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Area of Research: The relationships between the conformations of carbohydrate molecules and biological recognition and activity
Telephone:	(706) 542 4412
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/personnel/woods/woods1.html

William S. York, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Complex Carbohydrate Center
Area of Research: molecular dynamics and topology of polysaccharide networks in the cell walls of higher plants
Telephone:	(706) 542-4628
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.ccrc.uga.edu/web/personnel/york/york1.html

Shaying Zhao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706)
E-mail:
Web:

Associate Members:

David Brown
Genetics
Telephone:	(706) 542-1423
E-mail:

Harry Dickerson, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Veterinary Medicine
Area of Research: genome mining of Tetrahymena data base and zebrafish database with regard to host/parasite gene expression.
Telephone:	(706) 542-5734
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.ctegd.uga.edu/people_pages/dickerson.html

F. Alex Feltus, Ph.D.
IT Directort, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
Area of Research: High-throughput sequencing/assembly/annotation papaya genome MSY region, genome-scale comparative grass genomics, high density SNP discovery and genetic/genomic examination of drought stress in grasses..
Telephone:	(706) 542-3860
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu/

Maricarmen Garcia, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Avian Medicine
Area of Research: molecular epidemiology of avian diseases such as mycoplasmosis, infectious laryngotracheitis virus (ILTV) and avian influenza.
Telephone:	(706) 542-5656
E-mail:
Web:

Alan R. Gingle, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
Area of Research: database development to complement bioinformatic data processing and facilitate biological data mining.
Telephone:	(706) 542-0226
E-mail:
Web:	http://cggc.agtec.uga.edu

Jun-tao Guo, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Area of Research: protein structure prediction
Telephone:	(706) 542-9762
E-mail:
Web:	http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/~guy

Duncan C. Krause, Ph.D.
Department Head, Microbiology
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-2671
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/krause.htm

Campbell J. Nairn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Forest Resources
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-1885
E-mail:
Web:

Jerry Blake NeSmith
Director, VP for Research - Services
Area of Research: directing the UGA Research Computing Center and as collaborator in acquiring and supporting the IOB high performance bioinformatics cluster.
Telephone:	(706) 542-5974
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.rcc.uga.edu/

Victor Olman, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-4467
E-mail:
Web:	http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/~olman/

David S. Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
Area of Research: phylogenetic analysis of apicomplexan parasites and the evolution of gene families in these organisms.
Telephone:	(706) 542-5242
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.vet.uga.edu/ID/peterson.html

Bruce R. Seal, Ph.D.
Adjunct Graduate Faculty
Area of Research: gene sequence analyses and phylogenetics; proteomics.
Telephone:	(706) 546-3549
E-mail:
Web:

Eric Stabb, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research: annotation of the Vibrio fischeri genome, functional and comparative genomics of V. fischeri, and incorporating genomic information into regulatory and mutational studies.
Telephone:	(706) 542-2414
E-mail:
Web:	http://www.uga.edu/mib/people/stabb.htm

Michel Vandenplas, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Scientist, Large Animal Medicine
Area of Research:Microarrays used to examine gene expression profiles during equine laminitis.
Telephone:	(706) 542-6389
E-mail:
Web:

Juergen Wiegel, Ph.D.
Professor, Microbiology
Area of Research:
Telephone:	(706) 542-2651
E-mail:
Web: