Principal Investigators
Jeffrey Bailey, M.D., Ph.D.
Manuel Garber, Ph.D.
Elinor Karlsson, Ph.D.
Konstantin Zeldovich, Ph.D.
Zhiping Weng, Ph.D.
Research Faculty
Alper Kucukural, Ph.D.
Patrick McDonel, Ph.D.
Thom Vreven, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ozkan Aydemir, Ph.D.
Srinivas Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.
Elisa Donnard, Ph.D.
Kathryn Lord, Ph.D.
Eugenio Mattei, Ph.D.
Jesse McClure, Ph.D.
Xiao-Ou Zhang, Ph.D.
Bioinformaticians
Alan Derr
Lab Technicians
Brittney Logan
Patrick Marsh
Anthony Schmitt
Graduate Students
Tyler Borrman
Gaurav Chauhan
Hao Chen
Yu Fu
Kyle (Jake) Gellatly
Nicholas Hathaway
Mercedeh Javanbakht Movassagh
Xue Li
Jill Moore
Michael Purcaro
Arjan van der Velde
Pranitha Vangala
Visiting Scholars
Welcome to BIB
Department photo 2016
Albert Sherman Center
The Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology occupies 7,000 square-feet on the 4th and 5th floors of the Albert Sherman Center (ASC). The ASC cutting edge design integrates research and teaching in an exciting collaborative environment.
Media reports: First RNAi drug, based on Craig Mello discovery, nearing market
The breakthrough discovery of RNA interference that earned UMass Medical School Professor Craig C. Mello, PhD, and Andrew Z. Fire, PhD, of Stanford University, the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine is yielding its first commercial drug, and possibly a new class of drugs, according to numerous media reports, including stories in Stat News, Forbes and Worcester Business Journal.
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Darwin's Dogs project
Does dog DNA hold clues to better human health?
Karlsson Lab news....
Nature: Dog DNA probed for clues to human psychiatric ills
Pet project hunts genetic links to behaviour by polling owners on their companions’ quirks.
Elinor Karlsson, PhD
Wall Street Journal: UMMS study of canine DNA may yield discoveries to help people
Pet owners asked to report on their dogs’ behaviors, submit DNA samples
Sergey Venev and Konstantin Zeldovich artwork selected for the cover of Molecular Biology and Evolution (Volume 32*Number6*June 2015)
Cover Art Caption: A newly reassorted influenza A virus reproducibly emerges from parental strains over time via reassortment. Artwork provided by Sergey Venev and Konstantin Zeldovich (Volume 32, pp. 1519-1532).
Jeffrey Bailey (back row, second from right) and ACCEL honored at Commencement
UMass Medical School Ebola fighters honored for lifesaving work in Liberia
Manuel Garber, PhD and Jeremy Luban, MD
UMMS receives $6.1 M to develop model for predicting gene expression in human dendritic cells.