Graduate Faculty Directory
Bioinformatics Graduate Faculty
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Zhijun Li
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Research Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Biotechnology
My current research efforts focus on utilizing computational and bioinformatics methods to generate and analyze three-dimensional structures of protein molecules, and to gain insight into protein sequence, structure and function relationships. Leveraging and combining a broad range of techniques enables us to tackle biological problems in multiple dimensions. Network analysis of protein structures First project is the development of new tools to aid in the quantitative analysis of the protein 3D structures currently available in...
James Pierce
Chair, Department of Bioinformatics and Computer Science
Associate Professor of Biology
Bo Sun
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Sun earned her Ph.D. from Old Dominion University. For the past 3 years, she has committed her research to enhancing medical training w/o SPs using computer simulation technologies and holds one U.S. patent on it. Dr. Sun’s current research is focused on Medical Image Processing, Computer Aided Diagnose or Training System, and Medical Simulation by utilizing Computer Graphics and Visualization Technologies.
Randy J. Zauhar
Director, Graduate Program in Bioinformatics
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics
Shape signatures is a novel technique for computer-aided drug design developed over the last few years by USP associate professor of biochemistry Randy Zauhar and collaborators. It is a system for compactly representing the shape of drug molecules and the protein receptor sites they target. It was recognized by Emil Fischer in the nineteenth century that the molecules central to the processes of life must recognize each other by a mechanism similar to a key fitting...
