BOL: Category: All

Vvek's Lab

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:11:39 -0500

Broad Area of Research: RNA biology (microRNA, lncRNA), Stem cells, Functional genomics, Epigenomics and Cancer

RNAs, especially non-coding RNAs (such as microRNA, long ncRNAs) are recently identified to be very abundant in mammalian organisms and play some key roles in gene expression regulation, gene silencing, and also implicated in disease progression, stem cell pluripotency etc. Current research activities of our lab include analysis of expression pattern of ncRNAs by microarray and next-gen sequencing data and understanding the role of miRNAs or other regulatory RNAs in various diseases, especially cancer and validation by reporter assays (renilla/luciferase) and other experimental tools.

More @ http://vvekslab.in/index.html

Chang lab

Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:25:49 -0500

The Chang lab is focused on how the activities of hundreds or even thousands of genes (gene parties) are coordinated to achieve biological meaning. We have pioneered methods to predict, dissect, and control large-scale gene regulatory programs; these methods have provided insights into human development, cancer, and aging. A particular interest is how cells know and remember their locations in the body, particularly with the help of long noncoding RNAs.

More at http://changlab.stanford.edu/index.html

Sundar Lab

Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:10:16 -0500

Area of interest

Understanding DNA-protein interactions, genome engineering
Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics
Secondary metabolite biosynthesis, metabolic engineering

Ongoing Projects:

"Betraying the parasite’s redox system: Studies on spermidine synthase of Leishmania donovani "

"Towards modifying nature's DNA-recognition system"

"Yield enhancement strategies for production of therapeutic compounds by cell and tissue cultures of Tinospora cordifolia (willd.) Miers ex Hook. F. & Thoms"

"Program support for Computational Genomics"

More at http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sundar/

Giovanni Parmigiani Lab

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:21:41 -0500

Scientific Interests:

Models and software for predicting who is at risk of carrying genetic variants that confer susceptibility to cancer. Application to breast, ovarian, colorectal, pancreatic and skin cancer.

Statistical methods for the analysis of high throughput genomic data: analysis of cancer genome sequencing projects; integration of genomic information across technologies; cross-study validation of genomics results.

Statistical methods for comparative effectiveness research: comprehensive models for lifetime history of chronic disease outcomes; Bayesian meta-analysis; Bayesian causal inference; decision analysis.

Bayesian modeling and computation: multilevel models; decision theoretic approaches to inference; sequential experimental design and their application to adaptive and multistage studies in clinical and epidemiological research.

http://bcb.dfci.harvard.edu/~gp/index.html

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OlpYP3UAAAAJ&hl=en

Pandey Lab

Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:19:18 -0500

The Pandey Lab at Johns Hopkins University is a Systems Biology lab that combines molecular biology, analytical chemistry and computational biology with various "Omics" technologies including genomics and proteomics to understand signaling pathways and to identify therapeutic targets and biomarkers in a number of cancers.

More at http://pandeylab.igm.jhmi.edu/

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OhuG0FcAAAAJ&hl=en