CBSU Staff
The majority of the staff is Ph.D. level
researchers with broad expertise in various computational research
techniques in biology and bioinformatics as well as in software
development and maintaining advanced computing infrastructure.
Jaroslaw Pillardy Facility
Director of the Computational Biology Service Unit and Senior
Research Associate of the Institute for Biotechnology and Life
Sciences Technologies (Biotech Institute). Joined CBSU in May of
2001 and reports to the Director of the Biotech Institute. He has
over nineteen years of academic research experience in computational
chemistry and computational biology with 42 published papers. His
main responsibilities include facility daily operations, HPC in
computational biology, BioHPC, developing software solutions for
bioinformatics, managing computational infrastructure,
consultations.
Qi Sun Facility
Co-director and Senior Research Associate of the Biotech Institute.
Joined CBSU in 2001 and has over nineteen years of academic and
commercial experience in molecular genetics and computational
biology. His main responsibilities include initiating and
coordinating unit’s collaborative research, leading collaborative
research projects, developing software solutions for bioinformatics,
providing consultations in computational biology and bioinformatics.
Robert Bukowski Senior
Research Associate of the Biotech Institute. Joined CBSU in
2006. He has over thirteen years of academic experience in
developing, applying and managing high performance computing
algorithms. He published 43 papers in computational chemistry and
bioinformatics. His main responsibilities include managing unit’s
computational infrastructure, BioHPC development and management,
developing software solutions for bioinformatics, collaborations in
computational biology, consultations.
Chris Myers Senior
Research Associate of the Biotech Institute and Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Physics. Joined CBSU in
2007. He is engaged in various collaborative research projects in
computational systems biology, with an emphasis on modeling cellular
networks involved in regulation, signaling, and metabolism. His
responsibilities include: research; graduate teaching and
supervision in the fields of physics, computational biology, applied
mathematics, and computational science and engineering; and
consultation in systems biology.
Minghui Wang Postdoctoral Associate of the Biotech Institute. Joined CBSU in
2011. He is engaged in various collaborative research projects in
bioinformatics, with an emphasis on a high-resolution map of
recombination in maize.
Drew Dolgert Research Associate of the Biotech Institute. Joined CBSU in
2011. He is engaged in various collaborative research projects in
computational systems biology, with an emphasis on modeling cellular
networks involved in regulation, signaling, and metabolism.
Katie Hyma Research Associate of the Biotech Institute. Joined CBSU in
March 2012. She is engaged in various collaborative research projects in
bioinformatics, with an emphasis on a project ’Accelerating grape cultivar improvement via phenotyping centers and next generation markers’.
Yupeng Wang Postdoctoral Associate of the Biotech Institute. Joined CBSU in
May 2012. He is engaged in various collaborative research projects in
bioinformatics, with an emphasis on a project ’Comparative Analysis of C3 and C4 Leaf Development in Rice, Sorghum and Maize’.
Hsiao-Pei Yang Research Associate of the Biotech Institute.
Joined CBSU in August 2012. She is engaged in various collaborative
research projects in bioinformatics, with an emphasis on developing
a functional genomics approach to determine the contribution of rice
transposable elements (TEs) to gene and genome evolution.
Yang (Jon) Zhang Programmer/Analyst of the Biotech Institute. Joined CBSU in
August 2012. He is providing programming support for several CBSU
bioinformatics project and participates in management of CBSU
computational infrastructure.