Research Interests:

1. Genomic Medicine (Clinical Genomics)

Clinicians are particularly gratifying those works from biologists, who have devoted most of their professional lives to deciphering gene-based mechanisms of diseases. Medicine, however, has not been a gene-free art form in living memory. One of my research interests is in the area of Genomic Medicine. In particular, I am interested in transforming the existing genomic knowledge to practices in medicine in post-genomic era. I am currently working on linking disparate biomedical databases in clinical genetics and molecular biology, which may yield a deeper understanding of diseases and an enhanced integration of medicine with biology.

Advisor: Professor Yves A. Lussier, MD

2. Signal transduction networks in Drosophila.

Signal transduction has been widely studied because it involves in all kinds of human diseases. Continuing my experimental research in Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTK)) pathway in fruit fly, I am currently taking the project of signal tranduction network in Drosophia using different approaches. This is an exciting collaboration with Yale scientists on integration of experimental and computational techniques leading to unified picture of metabolic and signal transduction pathways in the fruit fly. The work is also likely to influence annotation of other genomes since the Drosophila genome is much better studied.

Advisor: Professor Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD