Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics

With the sequencing of the human and other genomes completed, a great opportunity in scientific investigation was initiated and has become an extremely exciting avenue for discovery. At Emory, this training focus mines the current databases and collects and develops its own data sets to understand the basis of evolution, the dissemination of disease and variations that occur with disease genes, the identification of disease traits, the actions of retrotransposons on manipulating the genome, and the predictive nature of complex genomic analyses. Terrific state-of-the-art facilities to investigate gene expression profiles, copy number variation, genetic polymorphisms, transcription-factor occupancy across the genome, and advanced DNA sequencing methodologies are available for use and training.

Program Faculty include: A. Escayg, I. Matsumura, C. Moreno, A. Neish, J. Peng, T. Schlenke, A. Smith, S. Warren, S. Yokoyama, W. Zhou, M. Zwick.