GRA Projects
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Gregory, Mia | Candace Fleischer | Assessing Pain Processing in Temporomandibular Disorder using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and 1H-MRS | |
Shantaraman, Anantharaman | King Jordan | The Effect of Genetic Ancestry on Clinical Genomic Diagnoses in Colombia |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Gan, Shuheng | Sam Brown | Random Forest to Predict COPD Exacerbations with Microbiome Data | |
Lin, Shuting | Peng Qiu | Identifying potential biomarkers that are predictive of patient drug response to cancer therapies | |
Pfennig, Aaron | Mark Borodovsky | Identification of a type of genetic code in an anonymous, prokaryotic DNA sequence | |
Sharma, Rhiya | Patrick McGrath | Employing Neural Network Models to Obtain Accurate Positional Coordinates of Malawi Cichlids | |
Ahmad, Maria | King Jordan | Genetic susceptibility and risk prediction for SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 progression |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Cao, Mingming | Raquel Lieberman | An In Silico Phylogenetic and Structural Analysis of Olfactomedins and Comparison with Existing Protein Subfamilies | |
Fisher, Margaret | Greg Gibson | A Novel Conditional Analysis Approach to Fine Map eQTLs Associated with Autoimmune Diseases | |
Gupta, Mansi | Brian Hammer | Identifying Novel Type VI Secretion System Genomic Loci in Diverse Bacterial Species | |
Hutwagner, Will | Fredrik Vannberg and Joe Lachance | From Genotype to Phenotype: Analyzing Breed and Physical Characteristics of the Domestic Dog | |
Li, Tianci | Todd Streelman | Variant Calling for 198 Cichlid Species in Lake Malawi and Conservation Scores for Cichlids | |
Neary, Bridget | Peng Qiu | Identifying Molecular Signatures that are Predictive of Patient Response to Cancer Therapies | |
Raut, Priyam | Raquel Lieberman | Identification of Biological Substrates for Signal Peptide Peptidase in Archaea. |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Zhuang, Qinwei | Peng Qiu | Pipeline Construction for Optimal Experimental Design in Tackling Problems of Limited Available Experimental Data in a Multiple-Substrates-Multiple-Proteases System | |
Raghuram, Vishnu | Brian Hammer | Understanding VgrG - effector pairs: A bioinformatics approach | |
Li, Junyu | Patrick McGrath | Machine learning on sand-manipulating behaviors of cichlids | |
Long, Jiani | Matt Torres | Analysis of Post-Translational Modification Hotspots in Domain Families | |
Saldana Farias, Beatriz | King Jordan | Genetic risk and disease burden in admixed American populations; The effect of ancestry on the risk of disease |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Meixue Duan | Greg Gibson | Longitudinal Evaluation of Human Physiological Conditions Based on Geographical Information System (GIS) and Clinical Outcomes | |
Camila Medrano Trochez | King Jordan | HLA-omics of Admixed LatinAmerican Populations and Its Impact on Health and Disease | |
Chris Monaco | James Dahlman | An Analytical Pipeline for High Throughput Nanoparticle Screening | |
Rohini Mopuri | Patrick McGrath | Study of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Arising in East African Lakes | |
Rushika Pandya | Matt Torres | Computational Analysis of PTMs in Domain Families | |
Brandon Smith | Soojin Yi | Comparative Analysis of DNA Methylation from Whole Genome Bisulfite Sequencing Maps of Hymenopteran Insects | |
Xinrui Zhou | Concettina Guerra | Development of Computational Methods for Classifying Permutations with Applications to Rank Aggregation Based Gene Prioritization |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Aroon Chande | King Jordan | Developing a Typing Scheme for Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae | |
Namrata Kalsi | Patrick McGrath | Prediction of Chemical Ligands Using Molecular Dynamic Simulations | |
Harshmi Shah | John McDonald | Developing an Algorithm to Predict Drug Therapies from Tumor Sample Analysis | |
Niveda Sundararaman | Matt Torres | Analysis and Comparison of PTM Hotpots between Experimental and Putative PTMs | |
Peijue Zhang | Eva Lee | Models for Choosing the Drug-of-Choice in Response to a Biochemical Terrorist Attack |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Binbin Huang | Joe Lachance | A Journey of African Genetic Variation | |
Menghan Li | Chong Shin | Multi-Cellular Crosstalk During Liver Regeneration After Injury | |
Roopa Reddy Nagilla | Fredrik Vannberg | Universal data structures for manipulating clustered k-mers |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Ying Sha | King Jordan | Dynamic Analysis of Nucleosomes of Human Stem Cell | |
Sanjeev Sariya | Patrick McGrath | Predicting Residues Involved for Ligand Binding in C. elegans Chemoreceptors | |
Dhruviben Patel | Fredrik Vannberg | Comparative Analysis of Plasmodium Parasites P. malariae and P. brasilinum | |
Karthikeyan Murugesan | Greg Gibson | Gene Expression Profiling Workflow for Bioconductor With an Emphasis on SNM | |
Krutika Satish Gaonkar | Eric Gaucher | An Experimental Method to Benchmark Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Methods | |
Ali Pirani | King Jordan | Bordetella Genome Informatics Platform - BGIP | |
Taylor Griswold | Brian Hammer | Identifying Novel Genetic Factors that Prevent Natural Competence in the Human Pathogen Vibrio cholerae | |
Emily Norris | King Jordan | The Genomic Basis of Capsule Switching and its Relationship to Disease in Neisseria meningitidis |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Emily Norris | Steve Harvey | Unusual RNA Secondary Structures | |
Dhruviben Patel | Fredrik Vannberg | Comparative Analysis of Plasmodium Parasites P. malariae and P. brasilinum | |
Gayathri Kurup | Francesca Storici | Genome Wide Mapping and Detailed Analysis of rNMP Incorporation in Yeast | |
Parimala Devi | William Ratcliff | Determining the Molecular Basis of Multicellular Complexity in Experimentally-Evolved Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | |
Ali Pirani | King Jordan | Genome Rearrangement Analysis to Characterize the Emergence of Bordetella pertussis |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Ying Sha | King Jordan | Senescence of Human Stem Cell | |
Sanjeev Sariya | Patrick McGrath | Predicting Residues Involved for Ligand Binding in C. elegans Chemoreceptors | |
Emily Norris | Steve Harvey | Unusual RNA Secondary Structures | |
Karthikeyan Murugesan | Greg Gibson | Gene Expression as a Predictor of Complex Disease Traits | |
Krutika Satish Gaonkar | Eric Gaucher | An Experimental Method to Benchmark Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Methods | |
Ali Pirani | King Jordan | Genome-Based MLST Scheme for Bordetella pertussis |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Cai Huang | Fredrik Vannberg | K-Mer Based Algorithm for Virus Identification | |
Dan Sun | Soojin Yi | A Study of Epigenetic Divergence and Genome Evolution Using Primates | |
Siddharth Biswal | John McDonald | Development of a Drug Recommendation Pipeline for Personalized Cancer Treatment |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Hema Nagrajan | Soojin Yi | Genome-wide characterization of CpG islands by epigenetic properties | |
Piyush Ranjan | Steve Harvey | Incorporating Kinetic Information into RNA Secondary Structure Prediction | |
Lu Wang | King Jordan | The relationship between DNA damage and non-coding RNA expression in adult stem cells |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Robert Arthur | John McDonald | Study and Stent Usage and Restenosis in Sus scrofa | |
Shaopu Qin | Greg Gibson & Nicoleta Serban | Application of Variable Selection Methods in Microarray Data Analysis | |
Kristen Knipe | Joshua Weitz | PhageLab: a Matlab-based Java Web Application to Aid in the Understanding of Phage Dynamics | |
Robert Petit | King Jordan and Tim Read | Bacterial Pathogen Database and Browser for Clinical Diagnostics |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Racchit Thapliyal | Eric Gaucher | Benchmarking of ancestral sequence reconstruction tools | |
Robert Adam Arthur | John McDonald | Gene expression in coronary arteries exposed to stents eluting synthetic rapamycin derivatives | |
Paul Cooper | Yuhong Fan | Analysis of Histone H1 binding to DNA | |
Kristen Knipe | Joshua Weitz | PhageLab: a suite of GUIs to aid in the understanding of phage dynamics | |
Robert Petit | Timothy Read & King Jordan | Bacterial pathogen database and browser for clinical diagnostics | |
Shaopu Qin | Greg Gibson & Nicoleta Serban | Gene clustering analysis from human leukocyte gene expression profiles | |
Shrutii Sarda | Soojin Yi | Understanding evolution of gene-body methylation in diverse animals using experimentally determined methylation levels | |
Neha Varghese | King Jordan & Nael McCarty | Comparison of site-specific evolutionary parameters to mutational effects in Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Chandni Desai | Brian Hammer | Comparative Sequence Analysis to Predict Interspecies Horizontal Gene Transfer among Bacterial Pathogens | |
Jay Humphrey | King Jordan | Assembly and Annotation Pipeline and Scalable Genome Browser | |
Sandeep Namburi | King Jordan | InGen: A Suite of Tools to Aid in the Epidemiology of Influenza | |
Eishita Tyagi | King Jordan | Epigenetic regulation of cell-type specific gene expression by transposable element derived enhancers | |
Aarthi Talla | Greg Gibson | Gene Network Analysis of Human Gene Expression Data | |
Nadeem Bulsara | Yuhong Fan | Structural and Functional Analysis of Linker Histone H1 | |
Neha Gupta | Greg Gibson | Use of Next-Gen Sequencing & Association Based Mapping for dissecting laboratory-based adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster | |
Phillip Lee | Melissa Kemp | Mathematical modeling of cellular thioredoxin redox states and cellular signaling |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Jay Humphries | King Jordan | Scalable multiple genome browser and pipeline | |
Namburi Sandeep | King Jordan | InGen: a suite of tools to aid in the epidemiology of influenza | |
Eishita Tyagi | King Jordan | Epigenetic regulation of cell-type specific gene expression by transposable-element derived enhancers | |
Phillip Lee | Melissa Kemp | Mathematical modeling of cellular thioredoxin redox states and cellular signaling |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Nitya Sharma | King Jordan | Investigating the role of IS elements in capsule switching in Neisseria meningitidis | |
Kanika Arora | Eric Gaucher & Stephen Harvey | Heterotachy in ribosomal RNA | |
Vinay Vyas | Stephen Harvey | A study of the structural basis of ribosomal fidelity using MD (Molecular Dynamic) simulations | |
Eishita Tyagi | King Jordan | Epigenetic regulation of cell-type specific gene expression by transposable-element derived enhancers | |
Aarthi Talla | Greg Gibson | Microarray analysis of human gene expression data | |
Nadeem Bulsara | Yuhong Fan | Structural and functional analysis of linker histone H1 | |
Neha Gupta | Greg Gibson | BSA-SFP linkage mapping analysis of Drosophila melanogaster for cardiac dysfunctions |
Student Name | Faculty Mentor | Title | |
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Nitya Sharma | King Jordan | Using SNPs to discriminate virulent and carriage strains in Neisseria meningitidis | |
Kanika Arora | Stephen Harvey | Dependence of 3D size of single-stranged RNA molecules on sequence length, secondary structure and presence of condensing agents | |
Abhiram Das | Joshua Weitz | Duplicate gene fate finder | |
Khanjan Ghandi | Timothy Read, Emory University | Design of database of bacterial pathogen genomes for PCR primer design and ongoing validation | |
Jasreet Hundal | Yuhong Fan | I. Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis II. Histone H1 structure modeling | |
Jeffrey Martin | Mark Borodovsky | Machine learning algorithms for inferring bacterial genome function from RNA-Seq data | |
Viswateja Nelakuditi | King Jordan | Neisseria Base: a comparative genomics database and genome browser for species of the Neisseria genus |