ralucaRaluca Gordân, PhD

Associate Professor
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Computer Science
Office: CIEMAS 2179, Phone: (919) 684-9881
Postdoc: Harvard Medical School (2011)
Ph.D.: Duke University (2009)
B.S.: University of Iasi, Romania (2005)

Zack Mielko, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Room: CIEMAS 2149
Project: K-mer based methods to measure & predict TF binding to damaged & undamaged DNA

Harshit Sahay 

PhD student, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Room: CIEMAS 2149
Project: Creation of mutations in noncoding regions

Wei Zhu

PhD student, MGM and CMB
Room: CIEMAS 2211
Project: Mutagenesis in transcription factor binding sites

Olivier Boivin

PhD student, Genetics and Genomics (UPGG)
Room: CIEMAS 2211
Project: Transcription factor binding and Okazaki fragment maturation

Shengyu  Li

PhD student, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Room: CIEMAS 2149
Project: The effect of mutations on transcription factor binding

Kyle  Pinheiro de Oliveira

PhD student, Computer Science
Room: CIEMAS 2149
Project: Modeling cooperative transcription factor binding

Hana  Wasserman

PhD student, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Room: CIEMAS 2211
Project: The DNA binding specificity of repair enzymes

johnJohn Horton

Laboratory Technician
Room: CIEMAS 2211, Phone: (919) 681-2046

Alumni:

Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students:
2017-2022 Yuning Zhang – PhD student, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; next position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Barak Cohen’s lab
2018-2022 Yuze Hou – PhD student, Biochemistry; next position: Computational Biologist at GlaxoSmithKline (Philadelphia, PA)
2017-2022 Vincentius Martin – PhD student, Computer Science; next position: Computational Biologist at GlaxoSmithKline (Philadelphia, PA)
2016-2022 Ariel Afek – Postdoctoral fellow; next position: Assistant Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
2015-2020 Jingkang Zhao – PhD student, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; next position: Research Scientist at Facebook (Seattle, WA)
2015-2020 Vishwa Nellore  – Postdoctoral fellow; next position: Senior Data Scientist at AstraZeneca
2019-2020 Farica Zhuang – MS student, Computer Science; next positions: Software Engineer at ASP  PhD student at University of Pennsylvania
2015-2019 Anne Marie Augustus – postdoctoral fellow
2012-2018 Dinesh Manandhar – PhD student, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; next position: Computational Biologist at GlaxoSmithKline (Philadelphia, PA)
2016-2018 Dongshunyi (Dora) Li – MS student, Biostatistics; next position: PhD student in Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University
2016-2018 Anne Marie Augustus – postdoctoral fellow/senior research associate
2012-2016 Ning Shen – PhD student, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology; next positions: Computational Biologist at Fulcrum Therapeutics (Boston, MA); postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School; assistant professor at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China)
2012-2015 Joshua Schipper – postdoctoral fellow; next position: research scientist at Van Andel Institute (MI)
2014-2015 Jingkang Zhao – MS student, Biostatistics; next position: PhD student in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics at Duke
2014-2015 Gurkan Yardimci – Short-term postdoctoral fellow (joint with Dr. Greg Crawford); next position: postdoctorall fellow with Dr. Bill Noble, University of Washington
2013-2014 Rumen Stamatov – MS student, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Undergraduate students, interns and high-school students:
2018-2020 Tiffany Ho – Undergraduate student, Computer Science
2018-2019 Anna Darwish – Undergraduate student, Computer Science and Biology
2017-2018 Debbie Burdinski – Undergraduate student (gap year), Chemistry; next position: MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School
2014-2015 Jennifer Zou – Undergraduate student, Computer Science and Biology; next position: PhD student in Computer Science at UCLA
2014-2015 Sunwoo Zhao – high-school student, North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
2013-2014 Tristan Bepler – Undergraduate student, Biology and Computer Science, Graduated with Distinction in Biology; next position: PhD student in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT
2013-2014 Thanh-Ha Nguyen – Undergraduate student, Biology and Computer Science
2013-2014 Rongxin (William) Fang – Research intern, Computational Biology; next position: PhD student in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at UCSD
2012-2014 Alina Munteanu – Research intern, Computational Biology; next position: PhD student in Computer Science at Humbold University, and research assistant in Uwe Ohler’s lab at Max Delbruck Center, Berlin
2012 Ran Gao – MS summer student, Biostatistics; next position: epidemiology coordinator at AbbVie in Chicago
2012 Ying Lu – MS summer student, Biostatistics