KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Dr. Alina Akhunova

Job Titles:
  • Director of Gene Expression Facility / Research Assistant Professor / Department of Plant Pathology

Dr. Bill Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Research Microbiologist

Dr. Bradley Olson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Division of Biology

Dr. Doina Caragea

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. Gerald Reeck

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biochemistry

Dr. Haiyan Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Statistics

Dr. James C. Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Department of Plant Pathology

Dr. Jianfa Bai

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Kristin Michel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Division of Biology

Dr. Liangjiang Wang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia
Liangjiang is now an Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia. There he researches machine learning models for gene regulation and protein function prediction. His predictive models are made freely available to biologists on BindN, BindN+, and MuStab.

Dr. Marce Lorenzen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Department of Entomology / North Carolina State University

Dr. Michael C. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Department of Entomology
  • Professor

Dr. Mike Kanost

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Dr. Richard Beeman

Job Titles:
  • Research Entomologist / US Grain Marketing Research Lab and Department of Entomology

Dr. Robin Denell

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Dr. Sanjeev Narayanan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Dr. Shie-Shien Yang

Job Titles:
  • Department of Statistics
  • Professor

Dr. Susan J. Brown

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Dr. Weiqun (George) Wang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr. William H. Hsu

Job Titles:
  • Department of Computing

Dr. Yoonseong Park

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dr.Youping Deng

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Hee Shin Kim

Hee Shin worked for two years in the K-State Bioinformatics group to annotate The T. Castaneum genome and develop a database using GMOD. At Baylor College of Medicine, he went on to contribute to the NIH Epigenomics Roadmap Initiative. Hee Shin is currently working at the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation. There he maintains next generation sequencing data analysis pipelines and develops innovative computational strategies for analyzing large datasets.

Jennifer Shelton

Job Titles:
  • Analyst / New York Genome Center / New York, NY

Jing Xia

Job Titles:
  • Student, Computer Science
Jing's research at K-State focused on prediction of alternative splicing events. He has gone on to use computational biology to investigate microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNA (siRNAs) at Washington University in St. Louis. His research addresses the role of these RNAs in complex diseases including Alheimer's and psoriasis as well as stress response in rice.

Karthik Tangirala

Karthik worked on Semi-supervised and Transductive Machine Learning Algorithms, Constraint Based Information Retrieval Techniques, Large Scale Data Processing and Monitoring. He also worked on the statistical analysis of the genomic sequences using PERL and R.

Martin S.R. Paradesi

Martin worked on protein-protein interaction prediction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. He is now a programmer at the science and technology consulting service Tessella Inc.

Paul Cain

Paul is developing a RNA-seq analysis pipeline and planning to use Tophat, Cufflinks, Cuffcompare, and Cuffdiff (when a reference genome is available) and Trinity, Tophat, Cufflinks, Cuffcompare, and Cuffdiff otherwise. Once this analysis is finished, the data is saved to a database so that Biologists can easily filter and query the RNA-seq results to find important information.

Swapnil Nagar

Swapnil used Textpresso (ontology based information retrieval and text-mining system) to mine for scientific literature for the organism 'Tribloium Castaneum'. He also developed the ontology for Tribolium Castaneum.

Vishwas Vaswani

Job Titles:
  • Business Technology Analyst
Vishwas Vaswani is now a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte Consulting in Kansas City.