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Sudhir Kumar
Ph.D. (Genetics), M.S. (Biological Sciences), B.Engg. (Electrical & Electronics)
Director, Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics, Biodesign Institute
Foundation 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
Evolutionary Medicine, 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 Fabia Battistuzzi Ph.D. (Biology & Astrobiology), B.S. (Biological Sciences)
Research Scientists
  Name Position
PIC Li Liu BARN Assistant Director and Research Scientist
PIC Mia Champion Research Scientist
PIC Z Nevin Gerek Assistant Research Scientist
Research Technologists
  Name Position
PIC Mike McCutchan Database Analyst (FlyExpress)
PIC Wayne Parkhurst Multi-Media Specialist, Website Administrator (FlyExpress, MEGA, TimeTree)
PIC Daniel Peterson Application Programmer (MEGA)
PIC Lin-Wei Wu Scientific Programmer (MEGA, TimeTree, FlyExpress)
PIC Glen Stecher Application Programmer (MEGA)
PIC Max Sanderford Application Programmer (MEGA)
PIC David Fisher Application Programmer (BARN)
PIC Kelly Boccia Application Programmer (FlyExpress)
Undergraduate Associates
  Chikku Baiju (FlyExpress), Raj Bayapou (TimeTree), Paul Billing-Ross (Meta), Kristyn Gerold (MEGA), Greg McIness (BARN), Ivan Montiel (MEGA)
Previous Lab Members
  Postdoctoral Research Associates
Claudia Acquisti (2006-2010), Robert Friedman (2002), Sudhindra Gadagkar (1998-2003), Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood (2003-2004), Bao Hong Shen (2005-2007), Christine Kuslich (2003-2005), Yingqin Luo (2008-2011), Antonio Marco (2008-2009), Mark Miller (2000-2002), Araxi Urrutia Obadachian (2003-2004), Michael Rosenberg (2000-2003), Anup Som (2005-2007), Sankar Subramanian (2000-2006)
Graduate Research Assistants
Cliff Bevers (1999), Sandhya Durvasula (2002-2004), Madhusudhana Gargesha (2002-2006), Charu Gaur (2003-2004), Rajalakshmi Gurunathan (2001-2006), Rekha Iyer (2000-2002), Karthik Jayaraman (1999-2001), Patrick Kolb (2001-2003), Charlotte Konikoff (2007-2010), Bindu Koshy (2004-2006), HoJoon Lee (2003-2005), Xiaofen Liu (2004-2006), Chandra Mitnik (1998-1999), Sai Moturu (2003-2006), Balaji Ramanujam (2002-2003), Mahesh Sundara Raman (2009), Hector Ramos (2005-2006), Stephanie Rogers (2003-2006), Siddarth Selvaraj (2007-2008), Vinod Swarna (2003-2007), Revak Raj Tyagi (2007-2010), Jian Yang (2002-2005)
Research Technologists
Amber Ahmed (2011), Ashini Bolia (2008), Christopher Busick (2006-2008), Melinda Caballero (2008), Suganthi Cidambaram (2009-2010), Kailah Davis (2009), Vesna Djinovic (2005), Joel Dudley (2001-2007), Sean Dudley (2005-2006), Vanessa Gray (2009-2012), Renee Grothe (2002-2004), Annirudha Kadne (2008-2009), Glenn Markov (2008-2011), Jana McAlpin (2008-2009), Harihan Mohanraj (2010), Quan Nguyen (2003-2006), Aditya Paliwal (2009-2011), Nicholas Peterson (2006-2010), Adithya Rajan (2008-2009), Ashly Ruttman (2005-2009), David P. Schwartz (2000-2004), Rachel Sipes (2009), Joseph Svitak (2004-2005), Ben Timmerick (2001-2002), Graziela Valente (1999-2007), Bernard Van Emden (2003-2008), Alicia Varma (2010-2011), Alyza Villa (2011), Lakshmie Narayan Viswanathan (2009-2010), James Werra (2011)