Bioinformatics Research Group (BioRG)
Profile: This research group works on problems from the fields of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Data Mining, and Information Retrieval. The group's research projects includes Comparative Genomics of Bacterial genomes, Metagenomics, Genomic databases, Pattern Discovery in sequences and structures, micro-array data analysis, prediction of regulatory elements, primer design, probe design, phylogenetic analysis, medical image processing, image analysis, data integration, data mining, information retrieval, knowledge discovery in electronic medical records, and more.

Publications, Posters, & Software(Click here)


Faculty Members


Prof. Giri Narasimhan
(Bioinformatics)
girics.fiu.edu

Associates and Post-Docs


Vanessa Aguiar-Pulido
vaguiarpfiu.edu
PhD, Computer Science, A Coruna

Trevor Cickovski
movingpictures83gmail.com
PhD, Computer Science, Notre Dame

Wenrui Huang
whuan014fiu.edu
PhD, Pharmacology, U Miami

Students Starting Fall 2015


Camilo Valdes (B.S., 2008)
hobbes182gmail.com
Comparative Genomics
Currently at CCS, U Miami

Tek Raj Subedi
subeditekraj222yahoo.com
From Fall 2015
Structural Bioinformatics

Andrius Radvilas Bubelis
abubelis1gmail.com
From Fall 2015
General Bioinformatics

Recent Graduates

Juan Daniel Riveros (M.S. 2015)
jrive258fiu.edu
Network Analytics
1st Employment: Ultimate Software
Mario Consuegra (M.S. 2014)
mcons004fiu.edu
MS, Algorithms
1st Employment: Google Inc.
Mitch (Misael) Fernandez (B.S. 2013)
mfern083fiu.edu
BS, Metagenomics
Now at: U Michigan

Recent Graduates

Melita Jaric
In Memoriam
Melita Jaric passed away on March 11, 2013. A bright, promising life was snuffed out in a careless hit-and-run accident. For more details, click here

Posthumous Ph.D., 2013

Recent Graduates

Deborah Plana (H.S. 2013)
dplanaMIT.EDU
High School Volunteer, Bioinformatics
Now at: MIT
Xing Yang (M.S. 2011)
olive_yxyahoo.com
General Bioinformatics
Daniel Medvin (M.S. 2011)
Daniel.Medvinfiu.edu
Comparative Genomics

Recent Graduates


Gisela Gonzalez (B.S. 2010)
giseladelcarmengmail.com
Metagenomics
Roxana Ordonez (B.S., 2008)
felsiggmail.com
Comparative Genomics
Tom Milledge (MS, 2008)
tmille01cs.fiu.edu
Structure Pattern Discovery
Now at: Duke University

Recent Graduates

Erliang Zeng (PhD, 2008)
ezeng001cs.fiu.edu
Protein-Protein Interactions; Data Mining
First Employment: U Notre Dame
Now at: University of S. Dakota
Michael Robinson (M.S., 2009)
Bioinformatics Databases,
High-Performance Computing
mrobi002cs.fiu.edu
Andres Parra (Ph. D., 2009)
nparr003fiu.edu
Medical Image Registration
First Employment: U Miami

Recent Graduates

Chengyong Yang (PhD, 2006)
Email
Data Mining & Microarray Analysis
1st Employment: Applied BioSystems, Inc.
Gaolin Zheng (PhD, 2006)
Email
Microarray Analysis
1st Employment: North Carolina Central University
Patricia Buendia (PhD, 2006)
Email
Phylogenetics
1st Employment: InfoTech Inc.


Recent Awards and Honors


Recently Completed Funded Projects


Research Collaborators


Graduated Students


Important Bioinformatics Conferences


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