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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
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 Charlotte Konikoff Ph.D. candidate (Molecular & Cell Biology), B.S. (Biotechnology)
PIC Siddarth Selvaraj M.S. candidate (Computational Biosciences), B.S. (Industrial Biotechnology)
Undergraduate Associates
  PICNicholas Peterson (MEGA), PICDaniel Peterson (MEGA), PICBryan Sexton (FlyExpress), PICMichael Suleski (Disease Mutations), Rachel Sipes (FlyExpress), Kim Kukurba (Hidden Proteome)
Research Technologists
  Name Position
PIC Bernard Van Emden Senior Research Technologist (FlyExpress, GRASP)
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)
Ashini Bolia Research Technologist (MEGA)
Adithya Rajan Research Technologist (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), Vinod Swarna (2003-2007), Jian Yang (2002-2005)
Research Technologists
Vesna Djinovic (2005-2006), Joel Dudley (2003-2006), Sean Dudley (2005-2006), Renee Grothe (2002-2004), Quan Nguyen (2003-2006), David P. Schwartz (2000-2004), Ben Timmerick (2001-2002), Graziela Valente (1999-2007), Melinda Caballero (2008), Christopher Busick (2006-2008), Ashly Ruttman (2005-2008)