{"id":584,"date":"2024-06-20T16:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/biology\/?page_id=584"},"modified":"2024-06-20T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:25:23","slug":"computational-biology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artsci.laverne.edu\/biology\/computational-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Computational Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/laverne.edu\/directory\/person\/tatiana-tatarinova\/\"><strong>Dr. Tatiana Tatarinova<\/strong><\/a> is an Associate Professor of Biology and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair In Computational Biology.<\/p>\n<p><b>Description:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Computational biology has no limits\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Ancient DNA analysis from 300 medieval graves of Khazars\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Plant genomics, the prediction of plant phenotype from genotype and environmental data\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>annotation of plant genomes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>analysis of epigenetic modification in plants\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Dog and cat DNA analysis where we investigate bottlenecks, kinship, inbreeding, domestication, co-evolution with humans, and other interesting things!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Modern human DNA analysis by collecting a database of human variation and will build a website that is more accurate than 23andMe<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Bacterial genomics by computationally investigating how bacteria adapts to an environment\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Techniques used:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>We work with plants and animals &#8211; since DNA is DNA<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>We develop methods to solve puzzles and unlock secrets of nature &#8211; in <\/span><i><span>silico<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>We have a wide network of collaborators in almost all corners of the earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Genome assembly and annotation\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Provenance prediction\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Prediction of phenotype from genotype and environment\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Ancient DNA analysis\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Student Requirements:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>The work does not have to be done in the lab &#8211; it can be done in the comfort of your home, cafe, dorm room, or a classroom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Develop clever algorithms\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Draw cute pictures with kittens\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Team projects and presentations\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Willingness to learn computational biology, which includes data mining, visualization, scripting, and statistical analysis\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>In 2019 during Jan term\u2026<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Plant team traveled to Malaysia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>DNA team traveled to Japan and Russia\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Bacterial team may traveled to Israel\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span>Chances to get hands-on experience in oil palm genetics and breeding<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Tatiana Tatarinova is an Associate Professor of Biology and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair In Computational Biology. 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