Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Data

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Gene Finding

Prospective Students

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Courses & Conferences

Seminar Series

CMSC828N: Computational Gene Finding & Genome Assembly

BCHM676: Biological Mass Spectrometry

CMSC858E: Algorithms in Biosequence Analysis

College of Chemical and Life Sciences

College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Faculty
	Steven L. Salzberg, Ph.D. Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Horvitz Professor of Computer Scienc e Comparative genomics, gene finding, genome sequence assembly, genome evolution, genome sequencing	Office: 3125 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-9611 salzberg [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home Page
	Rita Colwell, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Chairman, Canon US Life Sciences, Inc.	Office: 3103 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg rcolwell [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Michael Cummings, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Biology Molecular evolution, the relationship of genotype to phenotype, grid computing	Office: 3121 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-9903 mike [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Arthur Delcher, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist Professor Emeritus, Loyola College in Maryland DNA sequence assembly, sequence comparison, statistical modeling of sequence data	Office: 3107 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-9468 adelcher [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Najib M. El-Sayed, Ph.D. Associate Professor, CBMG	Office: 3115 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg. Phone: 301-405-5960 Homepage
	Carl Kingsford, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science Protein structure, protein networks, bacterial genome organization, influenza virus	Office: 3120B Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7395 carlk [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Stephen M. Mount, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Splice site selection in eukaryotes; genetics of Drosophila and Arabidopsis	Office: 3117 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-6934 smount [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Mihaela Pertea, Ph.D. Assistant Research Scientist Computational gene finding, splice site prediction, sequence motif finding	Office: 3109 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-9762 mpertea [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Mihai Pop, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science Genome assembly, environmental sequencing	Office: 3120F Biomolecular Sciences Bldg. Phone: 301-405-7245 mpop [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
Affiliated Faculty
	Cristian I. Castillo-Davis, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Molecular genetic basis of morphological evolution and the analysis of genomic data in a statistical and experimental framework.	Office: Biology-Psychology Bldg., Rm. 3220 Phone: (301) 405-2005 castill0 [at] umd.edu Homepage
	Avis Cohen, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biology	Office: Biology/Psychology Building Phone: 301.405.0069 Fax: 301.314.5683 avis [at] isrmail.isr.umd.edu Homepage
	Charles Delwiche, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Plant molecular systematics, systematics in the green algal class Charophyceae, evolution of plastids in dinoflagellates.	Office: 2106 H.J. Patterson Hall Phone: 301-405-8300 delwiche [at] umd.edu Home page
	Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics DNA repair mechanisms and lateral gene transfer in hyperthermophilic Archaea using functional genomics.	Office: 3221 H.J. Patterson Hall Phone: 301-405-4598 diruggie [at] umd.edu Home page
	Nathan Edwards, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, Georgetown University Proteomics, haplotype phasing, comparative genomics, sequence assembly, and PCR primer design	Office: Georgetown University Georgetown homepage nje5 [at] georgetown.edu Home page at CBCB
	Lise Getoor, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Computer Science Machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence.	Office: 3217 A.V. Williams Phone: 301-405-2691 getoor [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	Tom Kocher, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biology	Office: 3104E Biomolecular Sciences Bldg. Phone: 301-405-6929 tdk [at] umd.edu Homepage
	Dianne P. O'Leary, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS Numerical analysis, scientific computing, parallel numeric algorithms	Office: 3271 A.V. Williams Phone: 301-405-2678 oleary [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	Louiqa Raschid, Ph.D. Professor, Smith School of Business, UMIACS, and Computer Science Wide area data delivery, data management for the life sciences, grid data management.	Phone: 301-405-6747 louiqa [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	James Reggia, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS; Joint appointment, Dept of Neurology, UM School of Medicine Biological computation, automated causal reasoning	Office: A.V. Williams Phone: 301-405-2686 reggia [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	Ben Schneiderman, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science, ISR, UMIACS; Founding Director HCIL Human-computer interaction, interface design.	Office: A.V. Williams Phone: 301-405-2680 ben [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	Chau-Wen Tseng, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS High-performance computing for bioinformatics applications.	Office: 4135 A.V. Williams Phone: (301) 405-8010 tseng [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	Amitabh Varshney, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Computer Science and UMIACS 3D Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization, molecular graphics, high-performance computing	Office: 4407 A.V. Williams Phone: (301)405-6761 varshney [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	James Yorke, Ph.D. Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Physics Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology (IPST) Chaos theory, weather prediction, genome research, population dynamics of infectious disease.	Office: 4311 Computer & Space Science Bldg Phone: (301)405-4875 yorke2 [at] ipst.umd.edu Home page
Postdocs and Graduate Students
	Sam Angiuoli Bioinformatics Manager at Institute for Genome Sciences University of Maryland School of Medicine Graduate Student	Office: 3120A Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7444 angiuoli [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	Daniel Ayres Graduate student	Office: 3122 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7408 ayres [at] cs.umd.edu
	David Kelley graduate student	3120g Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7169 dakelley [at] umiacs.umd.edu
	Woei-Jyh (Adam) Lee Bioinformatics Engineer, graduate student	Office: 3126 AV Williams Phone: 301-405-2722 adamlee [at] umiacs.umd.edu
	Bo Liu Graduate Student	Office: 3120A Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7444 boliu [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home Page
	Niranjan Nagarajan Postdoctoral Fellow	Office: 3104D Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-8804 niranjan [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Adam Phillippy Graduate Student, Bioinformatics Engineer Genome alignment, comparative genomics, genome assembly	Office: 3120g Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7169 amp [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Mike Schatz Bioinformatics Engineer, graduate student	Office: 3120g Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7169 mschatz [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Cole Trapnell graduate student	Office: 3120g Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7169 cole [at] cs.umd.edu Home page
	James Robert White graduate student	Office: 3120a Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7444 whitej [at] umd.edu Home page
Scientific Staff
	Dan Sommer Bioinformatics Engineer	Office: 3120B Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7384 dsommer [at] umiacs.umd.edu
	Kunmi Ayanbule Bioinformatics Engineer	Office: 3120E Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7269 ayanbule [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
	Geo Pertea Bioinformatics Engineer	Office: 3120E Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-9782 gpertea [at] umiacs.umd.edu
	Daniela Puiu Bioinformatics Engineer	Office: 3104G Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-3403 dpuiu@umiacs.umd.edu
	Adam Bazinet Faculty Research Assistant, graduate student	Office: 3122 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-7408 pknut777 [at] umiacs.umd.edu Home page
Former Scientists and Staff
	Jonathan Allen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	LLNL email: allen99 [at] llnl.gov CBCB home page
Administrative Staff
	Denise Cross Coordinator	Office: 3120D Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-5936 dcross [at] umiacs.umd.edu
	Jennifer Newlin	Office: 3115 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-9905 jnewlin [at] umiacs.umd.edu
	Norma Brinkley	Office: 3101 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg Phone: 301-405-5142 nbrinkle [at] umiacs.umd.edu