Current members:

• Andrzej Kudlicki, Ph. D.
   
• Bernard Fongang, Ph. D.
• Xueling Li, Ph. D.

Research Interests:

• Regulation of genes involved in somitogenesis and segmental identity
• Regulatory function of non-B DNA, including A-DNA and G-Quadruplexes
• DNA structures responsible for directing epigenetic modifications (HRC3 motif)
• Role of ectopic HRC3 motifs in autosomal dominant neurodegenerative diseases
• Modulators of transcriptional regulation
• Role of the NFkB pathways in Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transformation
• Timeline of the mitotic cell cycle
• Transcriptional regulation of ribosomal genes
  
  
• Analysis of timecourse genomic data
• Inferring causation in genetic networks
• Systematic errors in microarrays
• GPU computing for computational biology

Resources:

• AllQUADS - Interstrand G-quadruplexes in the human genome
• HRC3 - A new motif involved in chromatin organization and regulation during development.
• TRANSMOD.net - inferring modulators and targets of 71 human transcription factors
• SCEPTRANS - Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Periodic Transcription Server.
• SOMITES - Precise timing of mouse somitogenesis
• YG-S98 - Correcting position artifacts in microarray data.
• Yeast.Swmed.Edu - Yeast metabolic rhythms.
• cellcycle.info - Timing the yeast cell cycle.

Additional links:

Official BMB page Postdoc opportunities UTMB Bioinformatics Program Publications (by topic)

Publications (Google Scholar) Publications (NCBI profile) Researchgate

Teaching:

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences:

• BMB6216: Algorithms for Biology

School of Medicine:

• Molecules, Cells and Tissues
• Neuroscience and Human Behavior

Former members:

• Mirek Gilski, Ph. D. (Postdoc/analyst; presently Center for Biocrystallographic Research, Poznan, Poland)
• Dirar Homouz, Ph. D. (Postdoc; presently Khalifa University, UAE)
• Gang Chen (CSC exchange student; presently South Central University, PRC)
• Huzhang Mao (rotation student, presently Morais Lab at UTMB)
• Rendong Yang
• Aaron Brown
• Surendra Negi (collaboration, Braun lab at UTMB)
• Fanpig Kong (rotation student, presently Luxon lab)