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Sudhir Kumar
Ph.D. (Genetics), M.S. (Biological Sciences), B.Engg. (Electrical & Electronics)
Director, Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics, Biodesign Institute
Professor, School of Life Sciences, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Web Resources from the Lab Website
MEGA: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis www.megasoftware.net
FlyExpress: Drosophila melanogaster Expression Pattern Search Engine www.flyexpress.net
TimeTree: A Public Knowledge-Base of Divergence Times Among Organisms www.timetree.org
GRASP: Genomic Resource Access for Stoichioproteomics www.graspdb.net
Courses Taught
Organic Evolution, Introduction to Comparative Genomics, Statistical Methods in Evolutionary Genetics
Books Published
Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics (Nei and Kumar, 2000)
The Timetree of Life (Hedges and Kumar, 2009)
Lab Members
Postdoctoral and Graduate Research Associates
  Name Education
PIC Alan Filipski
 Ph.D. (Computer Science), M.S. (Computer Science), B.S. (Math)
PIC Claudia Acquisti
 Ph.D. (Complex Systems), M.S. (Molecular Biology), B.S. (Biology & Applied Bioinformatics)
PIC Fabia Battistuzzi Ph.D. (Biology & Astrobiology), B.S. (Biological Sciences)
PIC Antonio Marco Ph.D. (Genetics), M.S. (Molecular & Evolutionary Genetics), B.S. (Biological Sciences)
PIC Yingqin Luo Ph.D. (Bioinformatics), B.S. (Information and Computing Sciences)
PIC Charlotte Konikoff Ph.D. candidate (Molecular & Cell Biology), B.S. (Biotechnology)
Undergraduate Associates
  PICMichael Suleski (Disease Mutations), Rachel Sipes (FlyExpress), Kim Kukurba (Hidden Proteome), Simon Lawrence (MEGA), Glenn Markov (FlyExpress)
Research Technologists
  Name Position
Mike McCutchan Database Analyst (FlyExpress)
PIC Lin-Wei Wu Scientific Programmer (MEGA, TimeTree)
PIC Kailah Davis Associate Research Technologist (FlyExpress)
PIC Jana McAlpin Application Programmer (MEGA)
PIC Revak Raj Tyagi Graduate Assistant (TimeTree)
Adithya Rajan Research Technologist (FlyExpress)
Jason Wulf Technology Support Analyst Principal
PIC Nicholas Peterson Application Programmer (MEGA)
PIC Daniel Peterson Application Programmer (MEGA)
Mahesh Sundara Raman Graduate Intern (FlyExpress)
Previous Lab Members
  Postdoctoral Research Associates
Robert Friedman (2002), Sudhindra Gadakar (1998-2002), Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood (2003-2004), Christine Kuslich, Mark Miller (2000-2001), Araxi Urrutia Obadachian (2004-2005), Anup Som (2005-2007), Sankar Subramanian (2000-2005)
Graduate Research Assistants
Cliff Bevers (1999), Sandhya Durvasula (2002-2003), Madhusudhana Gargesha (2002-2006), Charu Gaur (2003-2004), Rajalakshmi Gurunathan (2001-2006), Rekha Iyer (1999-2002), Karthik Jayaraman (1999-2001), Patrick Kolb (2000-2003), Bindu Koshy (2004-2006), Ho Joon Lee (2003-2005), Xiaofen Liu (2004-2006), Chandra Mitnik (1998-1999), Sai Moturu (2003-2006), Balaji Ramanujam (2002-2003), Hector Ramos (2004-2006), Stephanie Rogers (2004-2006), Siddarth Selvaraj (2007-2008), Vinod Swarna (2003-2007), Jian Yang (2002-2005)
Research Technologists
Ashini Bolia (2008), Christopher Busick (2006-2008), Melinda Caballero (2008), Vesna Djinovic (2005-2006), Joel Dudley (2003-2006), Sean Dudley (2005-2006), Renee Grothe (2002-2004), Quan Nguyen (2003-2006), Ashly Ruttman (2005-2009) David P. Schwartz (2000-2004), Joseph Svitak (2004-2005), Ben Timmerick (2001-2002), Graziela Valente (1999-2007), Bernard Van Emden (2003-2008)