CCTS Core Informatics Team

Jake Y. Chen, PhD
Chief Bioinformatics Officer
Associate Director
Informatics Institute
Professor of Genetics
UAB
205-996-0738
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• biological data mining
• computational systems biology
• translational bioinformatics 
• building quantitative biomolecular systems models from genomic and clinical big data

James J. Cimino, MD
Director
Informatics Institute
UAB
205-996-1958
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• standards/terminologies/ontologies
• electronic health records, decision support (infobuttons)
• use of clinical data in research
• clinical data research tools/systems (i2b2, virtual biorepository)

Chindo Hicks
Professor of Genetics
Director, Bioinformatics and Genomics Program
Director, Bioinformatics and Data Science Service Center
LSUHSC

• Bioinformatics and multi-platform data integration
• Computational and Population Genomics
• Biomarker, Knowledge and Drug Discovery

Elliot J. Lefkowitz, PhD
Director 
UAB
205-934-1946
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• Microbial genomics and evolution
• Phylogenetic analysis
• Basic bioinformatics analysis

Matthew Wyatt, MSHI
Assistant Director 
UAB
205-934-0660 
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• Clinical data access
• Clinical data warehouse

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Eta S. Berner, EdD
Co-Director
205-975-8219
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• Health informatics evaluation
• Informatics education 

Keith Bobitt
Senior System Analyst 
205-934-2508 
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• Software development
• Clinical data access

Dongquan Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Preventative Medicine
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David K. Crossman, PhD
Instructor 
205-996-4045 
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• Next generation sequence analysis
• Exome sequence analysis
• RNA-seq analysis

Don Dempsey, MS
Programmer 
205-934-9522 
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• Software development
• Medical education software development

Geoff Gordon, MSEE
Co-Director 
205-297-9495
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• Electronic health record
• Clinical data warehouse

Curtis Hendrickson
Research Associate 
205-975-5240 
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• Next generation sequence analysis
• Human genome sequence analysis
• RNA-seq analysis
• Variant detection
• Virus sequence assembly and analysis

Dale Johnson, MS
Senior System Analyst
205-996-5659
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Jacqueline Moss PhD, RN, FAAN 
Associate Dean
Technology and Innovation
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John Osborne, MS
Research Associate 
205-975-5240 
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• Next generation sequence analysis
• Human genome sequence analysis
• Bacterial sequence assembly and analysis

Liam Van Der Pol, MS
Bioinformatician II 
205-934-2508 
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• Next generation sequence analysis
• Application support and development
• Microbiome analysis
• Basic bioinformatics analysis

Jelai Wang
Informatics Architect
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James H. Willig, MD, MSPH
Co-Director 
205-996-5753
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• Clinical informatics
• Data quality
• Medical education

Auburn University

Eric Peatman, PhD
Associate Professor 
334-844-9319
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HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology

Devin Absher, PhD
Investigator 
256-327-0400
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• Multi-platform integration
• Statistical genetics

Louisana State University Health Sciences Center

Judy Crabtree
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Co-Leader, Genomics Core

• Next generation sequence analysis
• Biomarker discovery

Zhide Fang
Professor, Biostatistics
Interim Director of Biostatistics Program
School of Public Health

• Statistical analysis and modeling of High-throughput data (microarray and NGS)
• Survival Analysis, Longitudinal data analysis
• Design of Experiments

Lucio Miele
Professor, Medicine 
Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center 
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• Multi-platform integration
• GWAS/GEP correlation
• Biomarker discovery

Christopher Taylor
Associate Professor, Microbiology-Immunology 
Co-Leader, Genomics Core
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• Microbiome/microbial genomics
• Viral Sequencing

Jovanny Zabaleta
Assistant Professor, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
Leader, Stanley Scott Cancer Center Translational Genomics Core

• Next generation sequence analysis
• Methylome

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Sujoy Ghosh, PhD
Associate Professor Adjunct 
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• Bioinformatics analysis of genome-wide association studies
• Disease and Biomarker Transcriptome analysis
• Identification of blood-based genomic and genetic biomarkers of whole genome expression profiling
• Integrative pathway analysis

Ron Horswell, PhD
Associate Professor 
Health Care Quality Improvement
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• Cost-effectiveness analysis
• Using and merging data from large clinical databases, including clinical data warehouses
• Propensity score-based comparisons of treatment effectiveness using observational data
• Instrumental variables-based comparisons of treatment effectiveness using observational data
• Design of clinical quality improvement and comparative effectiveness studies

William Johnson, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics 
Director, Biostatistics Core
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• Design and analysis of clinical trials
• Mixed effects statistical models
• Design and analysis of data from hierarchical clusters of study units
• Models with repeated measures on multivariate data with patterned covariance structures
• Analytical methods for identifying latent clusters of multivariate outcomes
• Reduction of data dimensionality by principal component analysis

Michael Salbaum, PhD
Associate Professor 
Director, Pennington Biomedical Genomics Core 
225-763-2782
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• Gene expression
• Microarray
• Next-generation sequencing
• ChIPSeq
• Systems Biology

Tulane University

Melody Baddoo
Senior Research Scientist 
Cancer Crusaders Next Generation Sequence Analysis Core 
504-988-1345
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•  microRNA seed identification
• Circular RNA identification

Erik Flemington, PhD
Zimmerman Professor, Cancer Research
Program Director, Cancer Genetics
Director, Cancer Bioinformatics Core
504-988-1167
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• Genome Alignment
• De novo assembly
• Differential gene and/or isoform expression analysis
• Fusion gene discovery
• Nucleotide sequence variation identification
• Microbiome analysis

Michelle Lacey, PhD
Associate Professor, Mathematics 
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biostatistics 
504-862-3439 
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• Genomic and Epigenetic Analysis
• Statistical Modeling
• Phylogenetics

Jian Li, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
504-988-1675 
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• Next generation sequence analysis
• Statistical genetics
• Multi-omics

Yao-Zhong Liu, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics 
SPH and Tropical Medicine
504-988-1888
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• RNA-seq data analysis
• Genome-wide gene expression
• Metagenomics

Sudesh Srivastav, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics 
504-988-2472 
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• Experimental design
• Next generation sequence analysis
• Statistical genetics

University of South Alabama  

Dan Roach, MD
Acting Director
Center for Strategic Health Innovation
251-414-8170
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