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Akmaev, Viatcheslav
(Graduate)
07/01/99-07/31/00

U. of Washington

Prof. John Williamson
 
Prof. Gary Stormo

Phylogenetic and Statistical Approach to Protein Structure Prediction

Current Position: Staff Scientist I, Genzyme Corporation

* Bakajin, Olgica
(Graduate)
09/01/98-08/31/00

Princeton University

Prof. Robert H. Austin

Transverse Pulse-Field DNA Fractionation in Microfabricated Arrays

Currently a Lawrence Livermore Postdoctoral Fellow

* Ball, Keith
(Postdoctoral)
10/01/99-09/31/01

U. of California

Prof. Ken Dill

Development of a Fast Conformational Search Algorithm for Protein Folding

Currently a Senior Software Engineer in the Bioinformatics Group at Large Scale Biology Corp (Vacaville, CA)

* Ben-Dor, Amir
(Postdoctoral)
01/15/98-01/14/00

U of Washington

Prof. Richard Karp

Radiation Hybrid Mapping of the Human Genome

Molecular Diagnostic Department, Analytical Medical Laboratory, Agilent Labs, Agilent Technologies

Betterton, Meredith
(Graduate)
07/01/98-06/30/00

M.I.T.

Prof. Michael Brenner

Electrostatic Edge Instability of Lipid Membranes

Currently has a Chateaubriand fellowship at the Curie Institute in Paris

* Buck, Dorothy
(Graduate)
09/01/97-08/31/99

University of Texas

Prof. Makkuni Jayaram

The Topological Aspects of Rearrangement Reactions Involving DNA

Currently an Assistant Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University

* Choi, Vicky
(Graduate)
01/01/01-12/31/01
 
02/26/02-08/09/02

Rutgers
 
Case Western Reserve University

Prof. Martin Farach-Colton
 
Prof. Evan Eichler

Heterogeneous Approaches to Protein Libraries

** Cluzel, Philippe
(Postdoctoral)
08/01/99-07/31/00

Princeton

Prof. Stanislas Leibler

Non-Genetic Individuality and Noise in Gene Regulation

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Physics Dept., University of Chicago

** Doerge, Rebecca
(Graduate)
08/01/90-12/31/92

NC State University

Prof. Burce Weir

Statistical Methods for Locating Quantitive Trait Loci With Molecular Markers

Current Position: Associate Professor, Statistics Department, Purdue University

* Dudoit, Sandrine
(Graduate & Postdoctoral)
03/01/97-06/01/98
 
07/01/00-06/30/01

Stanford University

Prof. Patrick O. Brown

Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression Data from DNA Micro-Array Experiments

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

Frankel, Ernest
(Postdoctoral)
6/1/01-5/31/02

M.I.T.

Prof. Bonnie Berger

Integrated Approach to Understanding Protein Specificity

* Helms, Volkhard
(Postdoctoral)
08/01/97-09/30/98

University of California, San Diego

Prof. J.A. McMammon

Intramolecular and Supramolecular Protein Motion from Stochastic Dynamics Stimulation

Current Position: Group Leader of Theoretical Biophysics Research Group at Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics, Research Group for Theoretical Biophysics, Frankfurt (Main), Germany

** Heyer, Laurie
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/98-08/31/00

U. of Southern California

Prof. Michael Waterman

A New Metric for the Construction of Phylogenetic Trees

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Davidson College 

** Kececioglu, John
(Postdoctoral)
11/01/91-10/31/93

University of California, Davis

Prof. Dan Gusfield

Algorithms for Assembling Ordered Clone Libraries and Multiple Sequence

Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Computer Science

* Kerr, Kathleen
(Postdoctoral)
08/16/00-08/15/01

The Jackson Laboratory

Prof. Gary A. Churchill

Statistical Design and Analysis of Expression Microarray Experiments

* Khodursky, Arkady
(Postdoctoral)
07/01/98-06/30/00

Stanford University

Prof. Patrick O. Brown

Dissection of Regulatory Transcription Networks in Yeast Saccharomyces Cerevisiae

** Kostov, Konstantin
(Postdoctoral)
01/01/98-12/31/99

University of Chicago

Prof. R. Stephen Berry

Statistical Analysis of the Topography and Dynamics of the Potential Energy Surfaces of Proteins and their Relation to Protein Folding

Currently a Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, the University of Chicago

** Lazaridis, Themis
(Postdoctoral)
02/01/98-06/30/98

Harvard University

Prof. Martin Karplus

Development and Application of Implicit Solvation Models for Proteins

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, City College of New York

** Liu, Canwen
07/01/96-06/30/98

Harvard University

Prof. Daniel Jay

Mathematical Modeling of Axon Guidance in Haptotaxis

Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry of Neuronal Development, Jay Laboratory

Louzoun, Yoram
(Postdoctoral)
7/1/02-6/30/03

Princeton

Prof. Martin Weigert

Comparative Analysis of Lymphocyte Rearrangement Process

Currently in the Math Department, Bar-Ilan University

** Lowenstein, Michael
09/01/98-08/31/00

University of California, San Francisco

Prof. John Sedat

The Use of a Color Bar Code for Determining the Spatial Configuration of Chromosomes with Nuclei

Currently continuing Ph.D. studies in the Biohphysics Graduate Group at UCSF with thesis advisor Dr. John Sedat

** Lundstrom, Rom
(Postdoctoral)
1/01/90-10/31/92

University of Utah

Prof. Ryk Ward

Mathematical Models for Population Surveys of DNA Sequences

 

* Lyngsoe, Rune
(Postdoctoral)
12/01/00-11/30/01

University of California, Santa Cruz

Prof. David Haussler

Domain Finding in the Human Genome

* Ma, Jianpeng
(Postdoctoral)
07/01/97-01/31/98

Harvard University

Prof. Martin Karplus

Novel Mathematical Methods for Computing Reaction Paths of the Large Scale Conformational Changes in Protein

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Bio Engineering, Rice University

** McCarthy, Janice
11/01/96-10/31/98

Duke University

Prof. J.A. McCammon

Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for accurate simulation of the physical properties of helical peptides: Analysis of the generalized ensemble approach

Currently a Graduate Student at Duke University

** Mogilner, Alexander
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/95-08/31/96

University of California, Berkeley

Prof. George Oster

DNA Motors and Protein Mechanics

Current Position: Associate Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

** Naor, Dalit
(Postdoctoral)
11/01/91-10/31/93

Stanford University Medical Center

Prof. Douglas L. Brutlag

Combinatorial and Parametric Algorithms for Analyzing Biological Sequences

Current Position: Research Fellow, Network Computing and Security Group, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Tel Aviv Annex

** Olmsted-West, Martha
(Postdoctoral)
07/01/92-06/30/94

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Prof. Paul Hagerman

Distribution of Counterions Around Finite Nucleic Acis Structures

Onoa-Rojas, Bibiana
(Postdoctoral)
7/1/01-6/30/02

University of California, Berkeley

Prof. Carlos Bustamante and Prof. Ignacio Tinoco

Unfolding of Tetrahymena Thermophila Group I RNA enzyme at the Single Molecule Level

** Powell, Robyn
08/01/97-10/31/99

University of Nebraska

Prof. Lawrence J. Parkhurst

Time-Dependent Laser Fluorescence Studies of DNA Transcription

Currently finishing Ph.D. work at the Chemistry Department, University of Nebraska

** Qian, Hong
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/92-08/31/94

California Institute of Technology

Prof. John Hopfield

Cooperativity in Neural Networks and Protein Folding Prediction

Current Position: Assistant Professor Adjunct in Bioengineering, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

** Ratnanather, Tilak
(Postdoctoral)
10/01/94-09/30/96

Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Aleksander Popel

The Biophysics of the Substrate Cisternae of the Cochlear Outer Hair Cell

Current Position: Research Associate, Center for Imaging Science, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

** Regan, Jeffrey
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/94-08/31/96

University of California, San Diego

Prof. Jose Onuchic

Further Development of the Theory of Electron Tunneling in Proteins With a Specific Study of the Structure Function Relationship in Azurin, Myoglobin, Chochrome c and Other Proteins

 

** Richards, Robyn
08/01/97-10/31/99

University of Nebraska

Prof. Lawrence J. Parkhurst

See Robyn Powell

 

*/** Rosenberg, Noah
(Graduate)
09/01/00-08/31/01

Stanford University

Prof. Marcus W. Feldman

Mathematical Models of Chromosome Evolution

* Schnitzer, Mark
(Graduate)
09/01/98-08/31/99

Princeton University

Prof. Steven M. Block

Statistical Kinetics of Processive Molecular Motors

** Sjolander, Kimmen
06/01/96-06/01/97

University of California, Santa Cruz

Prof. David Haussler

A Bayesian Method for Phylogenetic Inference in Protein

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley

** Smith, Doug
06/01/96-09/30/98

Stanford University

Prof. Steven Chu

Physical Studies of DNA Using Fluorescence Microscopy and Optical Tweezers

Storey, John D.
(Graduate)
09/01/01-08/31/02

Stanford University

Prof. Rob Tibshirani

Applications of Statistics to DNA Microarrays: Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes in Replicated Microarray Experiments

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

* Swigon, David
(Graduate)
06/01/97-05/31/99

Rutgers University

Prof. Bernard D. Coleman

Theory of the Dependence on Linking Number of the Tertiary Structure of DNA Minicircles with Self-Contact

Current Position: Research Associate at the Department of Chemistry, Rutgers

** Walker, Wynn
09/01/96-08/31/98

University of California, Los Angles

Prof. Richard E. Dickerson

Development of Mathematical/Computer Algorithms for the Design of DNA Minor Groove Sequence Reading Molecules

** Warren, Gregory
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/95-08/31/97

Yale University

Prof. Axel Brunger

The Development and Testing of NMR Structure Assessment Techniques

 

Current Position: Scientist at Smith-Kline-Beecham

* Webb, Bobbie-Jo
(Graduate)
08/01/99-07/31/01

Rensselaer

Prof. Charles E. Lawrence

Bayesian Alignment Algorithms for the Identification of Gene Regulatory Modules

** Wolf, Ethan
07/01/98-06/30/99

Whitehead Institute

Prof. Peter Kim

Towards the Prediction of Partnering in Coiled Coils

 

** Wukovitz, Stephanie
(Graduate)
09/01/95-08/31/97

University of California, Los Angeles

Prof. Todd Yeates

An Explanation for the Macromolecular Space Group Frequency Phenomenon

 

*/** Yona, Golan
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/98-08/31/99
09/01/99-08/31/00

Stanford University

Prof. Michael Levitt

Global Organization of All Proteins

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

** Zhou, Yaoqi
(Postdoctoral)
09/01/95-08/31/96

Harvard University

Prof. Martin Karplus

The Molecular Mechanisms of Solute Effects on Protein Stability

Current Position: Assistant Professor at Dept. of Physology/Biophysic

* Fellows supported by Burroughs Wellcome Fund
** Fellows supported by National Science Foundation

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