Computational and Systems Biology
Yin Cao, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor
- Email: yin.cao@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Cancer Biology
Research summary
Novel genetic, microbial, and lifestyle risk factors for lung and gastrointestinal cancers leveraging large-scale clinical and population-based cohorts with deep genomic and phenotypic data
Key words
Systems and translational cancer epidemiology, microbiome, inflammation and immune-metabolic networks
Bruce Carlson, PhD
Professor
- Email: carlson.bruce@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Sensory and Evolutionary Neuroscience
Key words
neural circuits, neurophysiology, sensory systems, behavior, evolution, mathematical modeling
Shantanu Chakrabartty, PhD
Professor
- Email: shantanu@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons; Novel self-powered neural recording systems
Key words
Su-Hsin Chang, PhD
Associate Professor
- Email: chang.su-hsin@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Health and economic burden of obesity and surgical treatments of obesity, transplant outcomes, multiple myeloma prevention and control, and health disparities.
Key words
Aadel Chaudhuri, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Email: aadel@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Cancer Biology
Human and Statistical Genetics
Research summary
Liquid biopsy cancer detection
Key words
Barak Cohen, PhD
Alvin Goldfarb Distinguished Professor of Computational Biology
- Email: cohen@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
Genomic analyses of regulatory networks, Non-coding disease variants
Key words
Genomics, Genetic Variation, High-Throughput Technologies, Single-Cell Regulatory Genomics, Computational Biology
Joseph Corbo, MD, PhD
Professor
- Email: jcorbo@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Computational and Systems Biology
Research summary
(1) transcriptional networks in the retina; (2) the mechanistic basis of color vision; (3) the cis-regulatory basis of human uniqueness and neuropsychiatric disease
Key words
neurobiology, genomics, transcriptional networks, systems biology, photoreceptors, brain, neuropsychiatric disease, disease, cis-regulation
Sharon Cresci, MD
Associate Professor
- Email: scresci@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Human and Statistical Genetics
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Research summary
Genetic variation in the variable response to pharmacologic treatment (i.e. Pharmacogenomics) of cardiovascular disease; specifically individuals with both diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease.
Key words
cardiovascular disease, diabetes melitus, genotype, genetic variation
Gautam Dantas, PhD
Professor
- Email: dantas@wustl.edu
Program affiliation
Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Research summary
(1) Dynamics, ecology, and evolution of antibiotic resistance, (2) Engineering enhanced probiotics to treat GI disorders, (3) Engineering microbial biofuel catalysts
Key words
anibiotic resistance, synthetic biology, bioenergy, human microbiome, metagenomics, microbial ecology and biodiversity