Bioinformatics faculty have appointments in one or more academic departments,
principally statistics and genetics, but also animal science, biochemistry, biomathematics, computer
science, forestry, molecular biology, plant pathology, and physics. Names followed by an asterisk * are faculty with offices at the Bioinformatics Research Center.
William Atchley
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics and Statistics
Director, Center for Computational Biology
Research:
Computational biology; molecular evolution of transcriptional regulators and regulatory gene networks; information theory and biological sequence analyses.
bill@atchleylab.org
http://www.atchleylab.org/index.html
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Dennis Bahler
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Research:
Machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence; bioinformatics applications in genomics, toxicology, and environmental science.
bahler@ncsu.edu
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/bahler
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David Bird
Associate Professor, Plant Pathology
Co-Director, Center for the Biology of Nematode Parasitism
Research:
Analysis of mechanisms of parasitism in nematodes, host-parasite interactions, and host responses and resistance, using genetic, genomic, and molecular and cell biology approaches.
david_bird@ncsu.edu
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/people/faculty/bird
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Donald Bitzer
Distinguished University Research Professor, Computer Science
Research:
Application of information theory to genetics; ribosome memory and signal processing; free energy calculations for genetic sequences; optimization of cross-species translation.
bitzer@csc.ncsu.edu
http://renoir.csc.ncsu.edu/Faculty/Bitzer
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Dennis Boos
Professor, Statistics
Research:
Robust and nonparametric statistics, bootstrap and permutation methods, biostatistics, spatial statistics, model selection.
boos@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~boos/
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Matthew Breen
Associate Professor, Molecular Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
Research:
Functional genomics.
matthew_breen@ncsu.edu
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Ignazio Carbone
Assistant Professor, Plant Pathology, Center for Integrated Fungal Research
Research:
Evolution of genetic and phenotypic variation in natural fungal populations; statistical analysis of population processes as they affect phylogeography, conservation biology, and epidemiology.
icarbon@unity.ncsu.edu
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/plantpath/people/faculty/carbone
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Marie Davidian
Professor, Statistics
Research:
Hierarchical nonlinear models, covariate measurement error and missing data in these models, and analysis of assay data and calibration.
davidian@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~davidian/
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Ralph Dean
Professor, Plant Pathology and Genetics
Director, Fungal Genomics Laboratory
Research:
Molecular basis of fungal infection of plants; fungal genomics; fungal development.
ralph_dean@ncsu.edu
http://www.fungalgenomics.ncsu.edu/
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Jon Doyle
SAS Institute Professor of Computer Science
Research:
Physical computability, including the physical basis of computation, physical limits to computation, computation over continua, quantum computation, and molecular computation; bioinformatics, medical informatics.
jon_doyle@ncsu.edu
http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/doyle/
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Meg Ehm
Adjunct Faculty
Head, US Population Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline
Research:
Sampling design; association mapping and linkage disequilibrium; markers related to efficacy and safety in clinical trials and to complex diseases.
meg.g.ehm@gsk.com
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Sujit Ghosh
Associate Professor, Statistics
Research:
Statistical modeling of survival and spatial data using Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods.
sghosh2@unity.ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~sghosh2/
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Steffen Heber
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Bioinformatics Research Center
Research:
Computational biology and bioinformatics (gene order comparison, protein interactions, physical mapping, EST assembly and alternative splicing).
sheber@ncsu.edu
http://statgen.ncsu.edu/~sheber
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Norman Kaplan
Adjunct Faculty, Statistics
Senior Investigator, Biostatistics Branch, Environmental Diseases and Medicine Program, NIEHS
Research:
Developing family-based tests for linkage and association between markers and disease loci, and between markers and quantitative trait loci in nuclear families and extended pedigrees.
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Robert M. Kelly
Alcoa Professor of Chemical Engineering
Director, NCSU Biotechnology Program
Research:
Biochemical engineering; biocatalysis at extremely high temperatures; microbial physiology; enzyme engineering.
rmkelly@eos.ncsu.edu
http://www.che.ncsu.edu/faculty_staff/rmk.html
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David Lalush
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Research:
Diagnostic application of gene expression data, especially microarrays; designing simulation models of microarray data; developing statistical pattern analysis methods for classifying tissue samples based on gene expression profiles.
david_lalush@ncsu.edu
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Trudy F.C. Mackay
William Neal Reynolds Professor of Genetics
Research:
Genetic basis of quantitative variation in morphology, behavior, physiology and life history in relationship to fitness, using model organisms Drosophila melanogaster and Arabidopsis thaliana.
trudy_mackay@ncsu.edu
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/genetics/mackay/mackay.html
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Carla Mattos
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Research:
Protein interactions governing assembly of macromolecular complexes and effects of small ligands on protein interactions, focusing on Ras superfamily of GTPases.
carla_mattos@ncsu.edu
http://biochem.ncsu.edu/faculty/mattos/mattos.htm
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Alison Motsinger
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Assistant Professor, Statistics
Research:
Statistical genetics, genetical basis of complex traits,
gene-gene interaction.
motsinger@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/people/motsinger/
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Spencer V. Muse
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Associate Professor, Statistics
Research:
Developing statistical methods and software tools for the analysis of DNA sequence data, with emphasis on simultaneous analysis of multiple gene sequences from multiple species using a comparative genomics approach.
muse@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/~muse
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Dahlia Nielsen
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Research Assistant Professor, Genetics
Research:
Developing techniques for fine-scale genetic mapping in human populations, using population history to help locate genes involved in phenotypes such as hereditary diseases.
dahlia@statgen.ncsu.edu
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Christopher Roland
Associate Professor, Physics
Research:
Nanoscience/materials and biomolecular simulations.
roland@gatubela.physics.ncsu.edu
http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/faculty
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Maria Celeste Sagui
Assistant Professor, Physics
Research:
Biomolecular simulations.
celeste_sagui@ncsu.edu
http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/faculty
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Ronald Sederoff
Distinguished University Professor and Edwin F. Conger Professor of Forestry
Director, Forest Biotechnology Group
Research:
Molecular genetics and genomic mapping of forest trees (accelerated breeding, disease resistance, modification of wood properties); focus on loblolly pine.
volvo@unity.ncsu.edu
http://natural-resources.ncsu.edu/for/faculty/sederoff.html
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Robert C. Smart
Professor, Environmental and Molecular Toxicology
Research:
Determining molecular mechanisms of multistage chemical carcinogenesis and growth regulation, using cellular/molecular and in vivo functional genomic approaches.
rcsmart@unity.ncsu.edu
http://www.tox.ncsu.edu/faculty/smart/
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Bryon Sosinski
Associate Professor, Horticultural Science
Research:
DNA sequencing and mapping technology; robotics for colony picking, filter spotting, and microarraying.
bryon_sosinski@ncsu.edu
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Eric A. Stone
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Assistant Professor of Statistics
Research:
Developing statistical methods for the analysis of genomic data; functional inference through the quantification of evolutionary constraint; predicting mutational tolerance from sequence variation; estimating the coevolution of continuous traits.
eric_stone@ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~stone
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Elizabeth A. Thompson
Adjunct Faculty
Professor of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Research:
Methods for genetic analysis of large and complex pedigrees; long-term gene frequency differentiation in widely dispersed populations; short-term extinction of genes in a small population of an endangered species; patterns of genome sharing in plants; human linkage analysis.
thompson@stat.washington.edu
http://www.stat.washington.edu/thompson/
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Jeffrey L. Thorne
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Professor, Genetics and Statistics
Research:
Developing statistical tools for studying molecular evolution using DNA and protein sequences; protein structure and protein evolution; estimating time of divergence using molecular and fossil data.
thorne@stat.ncsu.edu
http://statgen.ncsu.edu/thorne/thorne.html
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Anastasios Tsiatis
Professor, Statistics
Research:
Biostatistics; design/analysis of clinical trials, censored survival analysis, group sequential methods, inference on Quality Adjusted Lifetime, surrogate markers, semiparametric methods with missing and censored data.
tsiatis@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~tsiatis/
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Jung-Ying Tzeng
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Assistant Professor, Statistics
tzeng@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~jytzeng/
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Mladen Vouk
Professor, Computer Science
Technical Director, Center for Advance Computing and Communication
Research:
Application of information theory to genetics; scientific computing; bioinformatics; high-performance networks; parallel and grid computing; software engineering.
vouk@csc.ncsu.edu
http://renoir.csc.ncsu.edu/Faculty/Vouk
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Mark White
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research:
Adaptive, non-linear signal processing (e.g., neural networks) and distributed processing algorithms for optimization, machine learning, and modeling; biomedical research applied to cochlear implants for the profoundly deaf.
mark_white@ncsu.edu
http://helmholtz.ecew2k.ncsu.edu/MWHomePage/index.htm
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Russell Wolfinger
Adjunct Faculty
Director of Genomics, SAS Institute
Research:
Development and application of nonlinear mixed models for assessing genomic data.
russ.wolfinger@sas.com
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Zhao-Bang Zeng
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William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor, Statistics and Genetics
Director, Bioinformatics Research Center
Research:
Developing statistical methods and computer software for mapping quantitative trait loci and for inferring genetic architecture of quantitative traits in natural and experimental populations.
zeng@stat.ncsu.edu
http://statgen.ncsu.edu/zeng/zeng.html
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Daowen Zhang
Associate Professor, Statistics
Research:
Biomedical statistics, genetics, microarray data analysis, epidemiology, clinical trials, correlated categorical data, estimating equations, longitudinal data, missing data, mixed effects models, semiparametric and nonparametric regressions
zhang@stat.ncsu.edu
http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~dzhang
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