Christine Elsik

Christine Elsik’s research expertise is in computational biology and bioinformatics, and she works specifically in genome sequencing and annotation. She has worked extensively with genomes of cattle and a number of insect species. Chris will have a joint appointment between…

Jeffrey Bryan

Dr. Bryan’s research focuses on comparative examination of cancers in companion animals to better understand cancers in all species. Bryan is an associate professor of veterinary oncology and director of the Comparative Oncology and Epigenetics Laboratory. His particular areas of…

Lori Popejoy

My professional nursing career has spanned about 30 years. In my early practice I worked primarily in intensive care nursing. The majority of that time I was in mid-level management. During my mid-career, I worked primarily in the nursing home…

Jared Decker

Genomics provides us with an opportunity to tackle questions that previously we did not have adequate tools to address. I use genomic data in multiple ways, from improving genome assemblies, to identifying causal variants, to investigating the genetic history of…

Prasad Calyam

Prasad Calyam is the Greg L. Gilliom Professor of Cybersecurity in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Missouri-Columbia, and Director of the Center for Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure (Mizzou CERI). His research and development…

Trupti Joshi

Dr. Trupti Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME) in the School of Medicine (SOM), with a joint appointment with Department of Plant Sciences and Technology (DPST) at University of Missouri-Columbia…

Chunhui Xu

Chunhui earned his Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from China Agricultural University in Beijing and his Master’s degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Brandeis University. Following these academic achievements, she joined MUII as a Bioinformatics Ph.D. student. Currently, she…

Shi-Jie Chen

The current experiments on structural determination for RNA molecules cannot keep up the pace with the steadily emerging RNA sequences and new functions. This underscores the request for an accurate model for RNA three-dimensional (3D) structural prediction. Although considerable progress…

Ye Duan

Ye Duan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his B.A. degree in Mathematics from Peking University in 1991. He received his M.S. degree in Mathematics from Utah State University in 1996. He received…