Faculty

Michael Krauthammer

Assistant Professor of Pathology

My research is in biomedical informatics/computational biology. Analyzing molecular networks to identify disease pathways / drug effector pathways for toxicity prediction. Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract problem-specific information from scientific articles or medical reports.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Nam Tran

Department of Pathology
Yale University School of Medicine
300 Cedar Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8023

Office:
Fax: (203) 785-3644

nam.tran@yale.edu

Graduate Students

Pavi Shivakumar

Pavi works with protein-protein interactions networks to find disease-related clusters/genes within them. She uses methods such as dimensionality reduction or diffusion to analyze these networks. She also works with microarray data from melanoma patients to find related genes.

Sebastian Szpakowski

The focus of Sebastian’s research is the design of microarray chips that detect patterns of genomic methylation, e.g. in cancer versus normal tissues. He hopes that his analysis of the data derived from experiments using those chips will help to functionally annotate the uncharted genomic regions, known as the “junk” DNA.

ThaiBinh Luong

ThaiBinh’s work involves mining through biomedical literature in order to map instances of gene strings and diseases to a repository of gene/disease identifiers. The aim of this process is to more easily classify research papers and identify relevant papers for researchers.

Staff

Jim McCusker

Programmer Analyst

My research is in distributed computing, including parallel and grid models, as well as scaling semantic web data systems.