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Meet Our People
The bioinformatics research and development team at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette includes the following faculty members and the graduate students.
Faculty Members
Dr. Raja Loganantharaj [Center for Advanced Computer Studies]
He draws his knowledge and skills from machine learning, artificial intelligence and algorithms development to work on Bioinformatics. His research interests in bioinformatics include gene regulation, functional annotations, microarray analysis, and mining for interesting patterns from genomic sequences and databases.
He earned his Ph. D. from Colorado State University in computer science. He holds M. Eng. in
Computer Application Technology, and B. Sc (Hons) Eng. in Electric and Electronic Engineering. He has a professional certification in bioinformatics from the University of Illinois at Chicago
Graduate Students
Mr. Paul Bibel
Graduating cum laude from Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi, Paul has a
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Spanish as a double major. He is
currently a Ph.D. student. His interests include functional genomics and
cancer causing genes.
Ms. Sara Rayburn
Working on her M.Sc. thesis in finding novel motif from a set of genomic sequences.
Collaborators
Dr. Kevin Gardner, Head, T Cell Transcription Regulation Group, Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, Cancer Research center, NIH.
Dr. John Clifford, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of medicine in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Dr. Jun Chung, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of medicine in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Alumni
Mr. Mazen Atwi
He received his Masters in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His M.Sc. project was in the area of gene ontology and functional similaity.
Mr. T.R.Janarththanan
He holds a Masters and Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His research interests was protein structure prediction, protein folding and modeling.
Mr. Vivek Philip
He holds Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Pune. He is pursuing Masters thesis research in Bioinformatics. His research interests was protein structure verification algorithms and their implementations.
Mr. Badri N Vardarajan
He holds Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Delhi.He is MS student currently pusuing research in Protein structure Alignment.His research interests was protein structure prediction, srtucture evaluation and alignment.
Mr. Deepesh Tated
He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from M.V.S.R. Engineering College (Osmania University.) He is currently a M.S. candidate pursuing Masters Thesis research in Bioinformatics. His research area/interests was multiple sequence alignments, phylogeny tree construction and analysis of splice sites.
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