Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Improving our understanding of human disease biology and the development of personalized medicine strategies using genomics and informatics technologies

Key words
genomics, bioinformatics, data mining, immunogenomics, precision medicine, personalized medicine, cancer vaccines, and cancer research

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Development of personalized medicine strategies for cancer using genomic technologies

Key words
bioinformatics, machine learning, cancer, genomics, immunogenomics, precision oncology

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Human and Statistical Genetics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Statistical genetics and bioinformatics, high-dimensional data analysis and complex systems modeling, developing novel methodologies for detecting complex disease genes and characterizing their function

Key words
genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Human and Statistical Genetics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and methodological research in genetic epidemiology

Key words
substance abuse, development, modeling, psychiatry, quantitative genetics

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Cancer Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Redox biochemistry in cell signaling and disease, Proteomics

Key words
proteomics, post-translational modification, cysteine, redox, mass spectrometry, oxidation

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Molecular, cellular and circuit analysis of circadian rhythms in mammals

Key words
neurobiology, behavior, imaging, circadian rhythm, glia, brain cancer, potassium channels, neuropeptides, astrocytes, glioblastoma, cancer, developmental biology, computational modeling

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Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Understanding the learning mechanisms of the brain from theoretical and computational perspectives

Key words
Computational neuroscience, Synaptic plasticity, Olfaction, Deep learning

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Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary

Key words
shared decision making, health equity, implementation science

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary
Interactions between the nervous and genitourinary systems during development, molecular basis for heterogeneity in progenitors and their lineage commitments in the GU tract, injury and regeneration using animal models, mechanisms of malformations using organoids from iPSCs

Key words
cell fate, gene expression, genomics, disease models, growth factor signaling, kidney, bladder, innervation, stem cells, organogenesis, nervous system development, birth defects