Biomedical Informatics Shared Resources (BISR)

• Chienwei (Jack) Chiang, PhD

  Research Scientist 

  office: 220-23 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-366-1958
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: ChienWei.Chiang@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:
  
  250 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • Ph.D. in BioInformatics (Minor: Pharmacometrics), Indiana School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
  • B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Purdue School of Engineering & Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN

  Research Interests:

  • Machine learning/ artificial intelligence algorithm
  • Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics for Drug-Drug Interaction
  • Network Modeling for Genetics Regulatory Network
  • Genome-wide analysis and Next generation sequence

   

• Venkat Gadepalli, PhD

  Research Scientist 

  office: 220-21 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-366-1841
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: VenkatSundar.Gadepalli@osumc.edu

  mailing address:

  Bioinformatics Shared Resources
  340-14 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210

  Education:

  • Ph.D., Integrative life sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014
  • M.S., Bioinformatics, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009
  • Advanced Diploma in Bioinformatics, University of Pune, 2007

  Areas of Expertise:

  • Data Analytics
  • Building support tools and web based interactive dataportals
  • Next Generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis (RNA, Exome)  
  • Developing NGS pipelines

  Selected Collaborations:

  • OSU-Comprehensive Cancer Center

   

• Amy Hite, PhD

  Research Scientist

  office: Ackerman Road
  phone: 614-688-9722
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: Amy.Hite@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:
  
  340 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive 
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • PhD., Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina, 2012
  • B.S. Biosystem and Agriculture Engineering, University of Kentucky, 2004

  Areas of Expertise:

  • Next generation sequencing analysis including RNAseq, miRNAseq, exome-seq, and CHIPseq
  • Ingenuity Pathway analysis
  • Nanostring miRNA expression

  Selected Collaborations:

  • OSU-Comprehensive Cancer Center

   

• Garrett Kinnebrew, MD

  Research Scientist

  office: 340 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-688-4778
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: Garrett.Kinnebrew@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:

  340 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • M.D., Indiana University, School of Medicine, 2009
  • B.S., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2005

  Areas of Expertise:

  • Metabolomics Analysis, including experimental design, metabolite identification and quantification, and pathway analysis
  • Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) Analysis

   

• Patrick Stevens, MS

  Biomedical Informatics Specialist

  office: 340-06 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-688-9634
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: Patrick.Stevens@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:

  340-06 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • M.S., Bioinformatics, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis 2019 (ongoing) 
  • B.S., Biology, Penn State Behrend, Erie, PA 2017

  Research Interests:

  • Understanding the chromatin interactions using Hi-C data.
  • Expression quantification of single-cell RNA sequencing transcriptome data and integration of other single-cell genomic methods to predict cell subtypes
  • Functional roles of RNA modifications across tissues and species
  • Prediction of RNA modifications using third generation sequencing

  Selected Collaborations:

  • Department of microbial infection and immunity
  • Department of Neurology

   

• Cankun Wang, MS

  Biomedical Informatics Specialist

  office: 340-34 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-685-6494
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: Cankun.Wang@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:

  340-34 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • M.S., Plant Science, South Dakota State University, 2019
  • B.S., Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, 2017

  Areas of Expertise:

  • Next generation sequencing data analysis 
  • Single-cell multi-omics data analysis 
  • Big data management and mining
  • Web applications and software development.
    
     

  Selected Collaborations:

  • OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

   

• Ayse Selen Yilmaz, MS

  Biomedical Informatics Consultant

  office: 340-16 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-688-9723
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: AyseSelen.Yilmaz@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:

  250 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • M.S., Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando 2001
  • B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul 1998

  Areas of Expertise:
  

  • Building workflows for processing variety of genomic data on cluster computing environment:
  • Transcriptome, ExomeSeq and TargetedSeq, Whole Genome, ChipSeq, ATAC-Seq
  • Sequencing Quality control
  • Expression quantification
  • Variant calling, annotation, filtering and  integrative genomics
  • Pathway Enrichment Analysis

  Selected Collaborations:
  

  • Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology
  • Division of Endocrinology
  • Department of Surgery, Ohio State Comprehensive Wound Center
  • Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics
  • College of Veterinary Medicine
  • OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute

   

• Yue (Diana) Zhao, PhD

  Research Scientist

  office: 340-14 Lincoln Tower
  phone: 614-688-9663
  fax: 614-688-6600
  email: yue.zhao@osumc.edu
  
  mailing address:
  
  Bioinformatics Shared Resources
  340-14 Lincoln Tower 
  1800 Cannon Drive
  Columbus, OH 43210
  
  Education:

  • M.S., Statistics, University of Iowa, 2017
  • Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2007
  • B.S., Polymer Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2004

  Research Interests:

  • Develop and apply statistical and computational methods for high-throughput sequencing data analysis
  • Sparse linear modeling of RNA sequencing data for isoform discovery and abundance estimation
  • Isoform abundance quantification with third generation sequencing

  Selected Collaborations:

  • Department of Rediation Oncology