VCU Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute
Virginia Commonwealth University

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Vetria Byrd

  Home Institution
  
University of Alabama
  Birmingham AL
  E-mail
: byrdv@cis.uab.edu
  http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/grads/byrdv/

  Home mentor
  Anthony Skjellum
  Computer and Information Sciences
  E-mail: tony@cis.uab.edu
  Interests: High Performance Computing

VCU Lab
The Center for the Study of Biological Complexity

VCU Lifesciences Building
1000 West Carey Street

VCU mentor
Dr. Tarynn M. Witten, Ph.D., FGSA
Senior Fellow, Director, R & D
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
E-mail: twitten@vcu.edu

 

Characteristic Interests and Activities
Computer Science; Bioinformatics

Research Interests:  Scientific Data Visualization

Prior Research
Developed algorithm to facilitate digital subtraction of dental radiographs

Publications

Semiautomated image registration for digital subtraction radiography.” Oral Surgery Oral Medicine Oral Pathology 85:473-8, 1998. [PubMed]

BBSI Research Proposals
2004 Summer Proposal [PDF Format]

Academic year 2004/2005: Multivariate High Dimensional Visualization and Analysis
of Microarray Data Incorporating Simultaneous Spatial and Temporal Components and Temporal Components  [PDF Format]

2005 Summer Proposal: [PDF Format]

Microarray Reference Reading List  (to be posted)

BBSI Research Presentations

Final Research Paper [PDF Format]

Final Presentation [PDF Format]

BBSI Presentations

2005 BBSI Paper Presentation (July 14, 2005):  Array-A-Lizer:  A serial DNA microarray quality analyzer.  Petri, A., Fleckner, J., and Matthiessen, M.W. BMC Bioinformatics 5:12, 2004. [Presentation]

2004 BBSI Paper Presentation (July 16, 2004):  Finkelstein, A., Hetherington, J., Li, L., Margoninski, O., Saffery, P., Seymour, R. and Warner, A. Computational Challenges of Systems Biology, IEEE Computer 26-33, 2004.  

Coming Events

TBA

 

Invited Talks

Bioinformatics Seminar Series for McNair Scholars

Talladega College, Talladega Alabama

Lecture #1 (March 15, 2005):  An Introduction to Bioinformatics & It’s Applications

Lecture #2 (March 29, 2005):  Bioinformatics:  Research, Workshops & Internships

 

Professional Memberships

 

2002 – Present     Association for Computing Machinery

2002 – Present     IEEE Computer Society

2001 – Present     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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