Lab Almuni

Visiting Professor:

Hangchan Lee, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Hansung University, Dept. of Multimedia Engineering, Seoul, Korea

Visiting Scholar:

Mateusz Kurcinski Warsawa University, Faculty of Chemistry, Poland

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Vishwesh Venkatraman Computational Chemistry, researcher in France
Jianjun Hu Computer Science, moved as postdoc at Univ. South California, currently assistant professor at Univ. of South Carolina

Programmer

Michael Gillogly Computer Science (CS)

Graduate Students:

Hao Chen, PhD (2010) Bioinformatics analyst, Craig Venter Institute
Troy Hawkins, PhD (2008) Currently research assistant professor at IUPUI, Indianapolis
Yifeng David Yang, PhD (2010) private company, Georgia
Farrukh Arslan Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) farslan
Ruchika Bajaj Biology rotation
Padmasini R. Chakravarthy Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Rayan Chikhi CS, summer intern from ENS Cachan Britanny, France
Justin Gaylor CS, MS
Manish Agrawal Mechanical Engineering, MS
He Huang PULSe rotation
Biaobin Jiang Biology rotation, Fall 2010
Kyle Krull Biochemistry / Molecular Biology
Xue Liang PulSe rotation
Luciano Julia Biol, rotation, Fall 2010
Hyun Chul Lee PULSe rotation
Chad Pitschka Biology rotation
Khurram Siddiqi Electrical Engineering
Chetak Sirsat Computer Science, MS
Evans Adolfo Tapia Computer Science, MS
Srinivasan S. Turuvekere Mechanical Engineering, MS
Otoniel Venuzuela Computer Science, MS
Junhui Wang Biol, rotation, Spring 2011 wang905
Lizhe Xu PULSe rotation

Undergraduate Students:

Luis Avila Marc/Aim summer internship, now Purdue CS graduate student
Steven Ahrendt CS
Jared Bannister CS/Math
Yu-Hsuang Rex Cheng CS
De'Rael Darling Marc/Aim summer internship, CS
Jairav Desai CS, now graduate student at Dartmouth College
Joel Hayhurst Computer Science
Robert Helms Biological Sciences
Sajat Jain CS, Fall 2009-Fall 2010 skjain
Steve Krawczyk Biological Sciences
Jiyoung Lee Biol
Yuhao Lin Computer Technology, now at Eli Lilly
En-Hsun Liu CS, now at Microsoft
Shuai Liu CS, Fall 2010 liu72
Stan Luban CS/Bio, now gradute student at UC San Diego
Devin Luckett Bio
Gabriel Martinez CS mathur
Malvika Mathur Biological Sciences (BIOL) mathur
Kunal Modi CS, Fall 2009-Fall 2010 kmodi
Ei Ei Phyu CS, now graduate student at Univ. of Rochester
Jason Pardieck Computer Science
Roy Ren Computer Science (CS) renh
Jennifer S. Reeve Computer Science
Brian Seckinger Computer Science
Preston Spratt Biological Sciences
Wei-Chia Sun CS, Fall 2010 sunw
Priyanka Surana Biological Sciences (BIOL), currently grad student in Iowa State U psurana
Irvan Sutiono Computer Science
Yen Hock Tan CS
Gregg Thomas Biological Sciences (BIOL) thomas41
Brian Trisler Computer Science
Rupal Trivedi Biological Sciences
Paul Tuck Computer Science (CS) ptuck
Steven Ueng Computer Science
Danny Varghese Computer Science
Yidi Wang Biol, Fall 2010 wang495
Rodney Weaver Computer Science
Jasmine Williams Marc/Aim
Jonathan Williford Computer Science

K-12 Students:

Katie Kranjak Indiana Academy of Science

Recent News

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  • A couple of postdoc positions are available. Please see here
  • "JnCML-like, an EF-hand motif-containing gene seasonally upregulated in the transition zone of black walnut (Juglans nigra L.)" by Zhonglian Huang, Priyanka Surana, Daisuke Kihara, Richard Meilan, Keith Woeste, accepted for American J. Molecular Biology.
  • Professor Andrzej Kloczkowski, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Ohio State University, visited our lab and gave a seminar in Structural Biology seminar series.
  • "Community wide asssessment of protein-interface modeling using a protein design based benchmark" by Fleishman et al. with Juan Esquivel-Rodriguez and D. Kihara accepted for J. Mol. Biol.
  • "Quantification of protein group coherence and pathway assignment using functional association" by Meghana Chitale, Shriphani Palakodety & D Kihara accepted on BMC Bioinformatics.
  • We welcome a new postdoc researcher, Dr. Hyung Rae Kim. Welcome, Hyung!
  • We welcome 2 rotation students, Karthik Padmanabhan and Mindaugas Indriunas from Biology and PULSe program.

Openings

Kihara Bioinformatics Laboratory is always looking for new people to join the lab. Our current list of openings is available here.