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PIC Omy Keyes
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PIC Carol Williams

 
Sudhir Kumar
Ph.D. (Genetics), M.S. (Biological Sciences), B.Engg. (Electrical & Electronics)
Director, Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics, 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, Evolutionary Medicine
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)
PIC Yingqin Luo Ph.D. (Bioinformatics), B.S. (Information and Computing Sciences)
PIC Charlotte Konikoff Ph.D. (Molecular & Cell Biology), B.S. (Biotechnology)
Undergraduate Associates
  Chikku Baiju (FlyExpress), Paul Billing-Ross (TimeTree), Kristyn Gerold (MEGA), Vanessa Gray (MEGA), Glenn Markov (FlyExpress), Harihan Mohanraj (Disease Mutations), Aditya Paliwal (TimeTree), Max Sanderford (Disease Mutations), Glen Stecher (Metagenomics), Alicia Varma, Lakshmie Narayan Viswanathan (TimeTree)
Research Technologists
  Name Position
  Li Liu Research Scientist (BARN)
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)
Previous Lab Members
  Postdoctoral Research Associates
Claudia Acquisti (2006-2010), Charlotte Konikoff (2007-2010), Robert Friedman (2002), Sudhindra Gadakar (1998-2002), Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood (2003-2004), Christine Kuslich (2004-2005), Antonio Marco (2008-2009), 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), Mahesh Sundara Raman (2009), Hector Ramos (2004-2006), Stephanie Rogers (2004-2006), Siddarth Selvaraj (2007-2008), Vinod Swarna (2003-2007), Revak Raj Tyagi (2007-2010), Jian Yang (2002-2005)
Research Technologists
Ashini Bolia (2008), Christopher Busick (2006-2008), Melinda Caballero (2008), Suganthi Cidambaram (2009-2010), Kailah Davis (2009), Vesna Djinovic (2005-2006), Joel Dudley (2003-2006), Sean Dudley (2005-2006), Renee Grothe (2002-2004), Jana McAlpin (2008-2009), Quan Nguyen (2003-2006), 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)