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FACULTY Computational Genomics	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Bergman, Nicholas	Assistant Professor	School of Biology	Medical microbiology, Host-pathogen interactions, Anthrax, Bacterial gene regulation and genomics.
Borodovsky, Mark	Regents' Professor, Director	Department of Biomedical Engineering at CoE and Computational Science & Engineering Division at CoC	Model choice, Bayesian inference, Sequential decisions, Markov models, Machine learning, Pattern recognition in biological and biomedical data analysis. Applications: modeling genomic DNA; ab initio gene prediction algorithms; unsupervised and semi-unsupervised algorithms for genomic sequence interpretation. (Click for lab web site)
Jordan, King	Associate Professor	School of Biology	Genome evolution, transposable elements, gene regulation and expression, non-coding RNAs, convergent evolution. (Click for lab web site)
Konstantinidis, Kostas	Assistant Professor	School of Civil and Environmental Engineering	Environmental microbiology and genomics. Population and single-cell genomics. Computational approaches for studying the ecology and evolution of microorganisms.
Lee, Eva	Associate Professor	School of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Biomedical informatics, modeling and computing. Machine learning and pattern recognition approaches to medial diagnosis/clinical data analysis. Genomic pattern recognition and prediction of function regions. Combinatorial approach and fast heuristics for DNA sequencing and multiple alignment problems.
Loeffler, Frank	Associate Professor	Carlton Wilder Associate Professor of Environmental Engineering	Microbial detoxification, bioremediation applications, novel bacteria, and environmental genomics.
Park, Haesun	Professor	Computational Science and Engineering Division at College of Computing	Pattern Analysis, Numerical Algorithms, Data Mining, Scientific Computing, Bioinformatics, Information Retrieval, Parallel Computing.
Vidakovic, Brani	Professor	School of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Wavelets; Statistical analysis of high frequency data; Random Processes that scale, Long Range Dependence; Multifractality, Bayesian statistical modeling, Nonparametric statistical inference.
Vigoda, Eric	Associate Professor	School of Computer Science	Randomized Algorithms, especially Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods; Statistical Physics; Analysis of Markov chain models arising in Evolutionary Biology.
Yi, Soojin	Assistant Professor	School of Biology	Comparative Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics, Population Genetics.
FACULTY High Performance Computing/ Databases	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Bader, David	Associate Professor Executive Director of High-Performance Computing	Computational Science & Engineering Division	High-performance computing for computational biology, parallel algorithms, bioinformatics, phylogeny reconstruction, epidemiology, protein-protein interaction networks, and large-scale graph analysis.
Navathe, Shamkant	Professor	College of Computer Science	Database design, modeling and integration: genomic data management, intelligent information retrieval, data mining and warehousing, web-based knowledge warehouses and mobile database synchronization.
FACULTY Imaging	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Tannenbaum, Allen	Chair Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical engineering: computer vision, image processing, biomolecular imaging. (Click for lab web site)
Wang, Dongmei May	Assistant Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Medical informatics and bioimaging, developing diverse biomedical data analysis, modeling, interpretation algorithms and management infrastructure for disease detection, treatment, and drug discovery.
FACULTY Integrative Systems	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Kemp, Melissa	Assistant Professor	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Signal transduction network inference, post-translational thiol modifications, nonlinear dynamics of biochemical systems.
Voit, Eberhard	Professor and Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems	Department of Biomedical Engineering	Biomedical Systems Analysis, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation, Metabolic Pathways and Networks, Multi-level Assessments of Biological Complexity, S-systems.
FACULTY Population Dynamics	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Bunimovich, Leonid	Regents' Professor Adjunct Professor	School of Mathematics* School of Biology^	Compex Systems: evolution of complex systems, stochastic processes, inverse problems, dynamics of spatially extended systems, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, and neuroscience.
Weiss, Howard	Professor	School of Mathematics	Nonlinear dynamics: population biology/ecology, spatial models of infectious diseases, agent-based models, symbolic dynamics, wavelets.
Weitz, Joshua	Assistant Professor	School of Biology	Theoretical ecology; bacterial viruses; microbial communities; biological networks; vascular plants; scaling laws; disease dynamics; interacting particle systems; adaptive dynamics.
FACULTY Structural Biology	TITLE	DEPARTMENT	RESEARCH AREA
Harvey, Stephen	Professor, Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology	School of Biology	Macromolecular structure and dynamics and the relationship of these to biological function. Structure-function relationships in the ribosome. Lipproteins and atheroschlerosis. Viral assembly.
Heitsch, Christine E.	Assistant Professor	School of Mathematics	Discrete mathematical biology, combinatorics on words, and string algorithms. Design, analysis, and prediction of RNA secondary structures and DNA code words. Sequence / structure / function relationships for RNA viral genomes.
Schmidt-Krey, Ingeborg	Assistant Professor	School of Biology	Structure and function of eukaryotic membrane proteins; two-dimensional crystallization; electron crystallography; electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM).
Sherrill, David	Professor	School of Chemistry & Biochemistry and College of Computing	Benchmark-quality quantum computations on prototypes of noncovalent interactions, particularly pi-pi interactions, including substituent effects. Comparison of potential energy landscapes for model interactions with frequency of contacts in the PDB.
Skolnick, Jeffrey	Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Computational Biology	School of Biology	Prediction of protein structure and function from sequence; prediction of protein tertiary and quaternary structure and folding pathways; prediction of small molecule ligands for drug discovery, prediction of druggable protein targets, equilibrium and dynamic properties of lipid bilayers; simulation of virus coat protein assembly.