MARC: Developing Bioinformatics Programs: Instructors
A Two-Week Workshop at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
July 17-28, 2006
Sponsored by: National Institute of General Medical Services and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing
Dr. Hugh B. Nicholas Jr, a computational biological chemist whose research interest is in methods for identifying essential, informative residues in protein and nucleic acid sequences. This work has included the identification of essential t-RNA bases for recognition by the charging enzymes and amino acyl synthetases using multiple sequence analysis techniques that he has developed. He received a B.S. in 1963 and Ph.D. in chemistry in 1969, from the University of Oklahoma. He was a postdoctoral research fellow in Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1971 and a biophysics researcher at the University of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1987. He joined the staff at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1987 and was promoted to Senior Scientific Specialist in 1992.
Mr. Alexander J. Ropelewski, a senior programmer who designs and writes sequence analysis programs. He has not only implemented a variety of sequence analysis algorithms on high performance computers, but has also been involved in the development and design of a sequence-structure alignment program. He received a B.S. in computer science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. He has been an applications programmer in the Biomedical Group at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center since 1989 and has implemented sequence analysis codes on a wide range of high performance computers, including: Cray Research X-MP, Y-MP, C90, J90, T3D and T3E; Thinking Machine Corporation CM-2 and CM-5; and a Convex C-3. He was promoted to Coordinator for Biomedical Software Development in 1995.
Troy Wymore, Ph.D., a computational chemist whose research interest is in the catalytic mechanism(s) of enzymes such as Aldehyde Dehydrogenases (ALDH). In addition, he is studying many aspect of Protein Homology Modeling and maintains the majority of the bimolecular simulations software on the PSC platforms. He received a BS in chemistry from the University of Missouri in 1993 and his Ph.D. in 1999, where he studied peptide-lipid interactions through molecular dynamics simulations and 2D NMR. He joined the staff at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in 1999.
Dr. Ricardo Gonzalez Mendez, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus
Dr. Joel R. Stiles, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Art Wetzel, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Stuart M. Pomerantz, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Demian Nave, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Dr. Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. A. Javier Lopez, Carnegie Mellon University
Benjamin Vernot, Carnegie Mellon University
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