Durand Lab


    Personnel
 
   
   

Lab Members

    Dannie Durand

    Philip Davidson

    Jayse Embry

    Ganesh Ghosh

    Jacob Joseph

    Leon Kim

    Han Lai

    Phillip Lee

    Collin McCormack

    Annette McLeod

    Katie Siewert

    Maureen Stolzer

    Minli Xu


    Former Lab Members


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Dannie Durand
Lab Head

office: Mellon Institute 646
email: durand@cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-6036
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Philip Davidson
Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences
Project topic: Evolution of the spo pathway in Firmicutes

office: Mellon Institute 650
email: pdavidso@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Jayse Embry
Master's Program in Computational Biology
Project topic: Horizontal transfer and the hologenome

office: Mellon Institute 646
email: welsch@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-4568
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Ganesh Ghosh
Undergraduate major in Biological Sciences
Project topic: Horizontal gene transfer between S. pneumoniae and S. mitis.

office: Mellon Institute 650

tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Jacob Joseph
Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology
Thesis topic: Classifying multidomain protein families

office: Mellon Institute 650
email: jmjoseph@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Leon Kim
Undergraduate major in Biological Sciences
Project topic: Origin of an orphan gene in yeast

office: Mellon Institute 650
email: hakjink@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Han Lai
Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences
Project topic: Reconciliation algorithms for gene duplication, gene transfer, and incomplete lineage sorting

office: Mellon Institute 650
email: hanlai@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Phillip Lee
Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology
Rotation topic: Rates of gene duplication in a birth death model

office: Mellon Institute 650
email: phlee@cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Annette McLeod
Administrative Coordinator

office: Mellon Institute 646
email: welsch@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-4568
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Collin McCormack
Master's Program in Computational Biology
Project topic: Simulating multidomain evolution

office: Mellon Institute 646
email: welsch@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-4568
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Katie Siewert
Undergraduate major in Computational Biology
Project topic: Construction of Protein Domain Trees to Understand the History of Domain Shuffling

office: Mellon Institute 646c

tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Maureen Stolzer
Doctoral Program in Biological Sciences
Thesis topic: Multidomain phylogenetics

office: Mellon Institute 650
email: mstolzer@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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Minli Xu
Joint PhD Program in Computational Biology
Project: Reconstructing the history of repeated domains

office: Mellon Institute 646c
email: minlix@andrew.cmu.edu
tel: 1-412-268-3199
fax: 1-412-268-7129

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    Former lab members


 

Kevin Chen   Undergraduate researcher, Princeton University.
      Currently: Assistant professor, Department of Genetics, Rutgers University

Ravi Chinoy   Research intern: Master's program in Information Systems Management

Dave Danicic,   Summer intern: Masters of Arts in Professional Writing

George Davis,   Research programmer.
      Currently: Phd Program in Computation, Organizations and Society

Aiton Goldman,   Research programmer

Rose Hoberman,   Doctoral program, Computer Science Department.
      Currently: Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Woody March-Steinman,   Summer intern.
      Currently: Department of Biology, University of Pittsburgh

Tamar Melman,   Undergraduate researcher
      Currently: Cantley Lab, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Priyanka Nandakumar,   Undergraduate researcher
      Currently: Junior, Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Narayanan Raghupathy,   Doctoral program in Biological Sciences.
      Currently: Center for Genome Dynamics , Jackson Labs, Bar Harbor, Me.

Deepa Sathaye,   Undergraduate researcher
      Currently: Senior, Computer Science and Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Marc Schaub,   Undergraduate researcher
      Currently: PhD Program in Computer Science, Stanford University

Robbie Sedgewick,   Postdoc: Biological Sciences.  
      Currently: Google

Nan Song,   Doctoral program in Biological Sciences.  
      Currently: Precision Therapeutics

Benjamin Vernot,   Research programmer, BS in Computer Science CMU.  
      Currently: Graduate program in Genome Sciences, University of Washington



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