Medicago truncatula functional genomics and bioinformatics VBI Noble Foundation

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Dr. Pedro Mendes, PI, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Overall project coordination, database and analysis system, quantitative integrative cellular model, statistical and machine learning algorithms for data analysis, data mining.

Dr. Olga Brazhnik, Database design (until August 2002)
Mr. Diogo Camacho, PhD student
Ms. Hui Cheng, PhD student
Dr. Stefan Hoops, Database design and administration (from September 2002)
Mr. Aejaaz Kamal, Software development
Ms. Xing Jing Li, Software development
Dr. Bharat Mehrotra, Database curation, data analysis
Ms. Revonda Pokrzywa, PhD student
Ms. Wei Sha, PhD student
Ms. Fernina Taliaferro, Undergraduate student, database curation
Ms. Anh Tran, Undergraduate student, database curation

Mendes group

Dr. Rick Dixon, Co-PI, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

Coordination of laboratory experiments, production and elicitation of cell cultures, metabolite analysis, data mining.

Dr. Lahoucine Achnine, metabolomics and nucleic acids
Lisa Jackson, Cell cultures and elicitation
Dr. Marina Naoumkina, microarray analysis
Dr. Lloyd Sumner, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

Proteomics, metabolic profiling, mass spectrometry, data mining

Dr. Victor Asirvatham, proteomics
Corey Broeckling, metabolomics
Dr. Aaron Elmer, metabolomics
Dr. Zhentian Lei, proteomics

Sumner group

Dr. Greg May, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation

Microarray profiling of gene expression, SAGE, data mining, summer course coordination.

Dr. Naveed Aziz, RNA preparation and microarray analysis
Dr. Jennifer Weller, George Mason University

Database (gene expression), summer course coordination.

Dr. Tim Smith, Southeastern Oklahoma State University

Metabolic profiling, capilary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry.

Mr. Gary Rhodes, Undergraduate student, metabolomics
Mr. Brad Williams, Undergraduate student, metabolomics

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0109732. Any opinions findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.