Oncology/Pathology informatics trainees. Current Oncology/Pathology informatics trainees   Soumyaroop Bhattacharya Home Program: CBMI Degree Sought: PhD Research Interest: Gene Expression Analysis, Microarrays Mentor: Lyons-Weiler Training Dates: 09/02 to Present Grant Subsidy: NA On-going research interests include development and evaluation of normalization approaches, tests for differentially expressed genes, clustering and computational validation algorithms in the analysis of Microarray data. The most current projects include: Computational discovery of differentially expressed genes, Re-analysis of publicly available Microarray datasets. Rick Jordan Home Program: CBMI-Bioinformatics Degree Sought: PhD Research Interest: Gene Regulation Mentor: Lyons-Weiler Training Dates: 08/03 to present Grant Subsidy: NLM Researching gene expression analysis tool to analyze microarray data that began while working at the Windber Research Institute. Also, comparing blood samples from patients with benign and invasive tumors. Su-jin Kim Home Program: School of Information Sciences Degree Complete: PhD Research Interest: Data Warehousing and User Behavior Mentor: Gilbertson/Becich Training Date: 05/98 to present Grant Subsidy: NationalMedical Testbed Grant (50%) and Center for Pathology Informatics (505) The information requirements of cancer researchers (especially those who use human tissue specimens) at a comprehensive cancer center, a multi-complex organization composed of various health-related disciplines, and to determine if existing information systems could meet those needs Bonnie Lemster Home Program: CBMI Degree Sought: Certificate Research Interest: Biomedical Informatics Mentor: Lyons-Weiler Training Dates: 08/03 to present Grant Subsidy: NLM Isolating RNA from thin sections of mouse tissues from a mouse model of arthritis. Using the double-amplification technique to obtain enough labeled cRNA to submit for Affymetrix Gene Chip analysis, the goal is to identify genes differentially expressed in arthritis, and correlate this data with a study of the histopathology of tissue sections in close proximity to those taken for the array analysis. Cathy Ma Home Program: Pathology Informatics/Bioinformatics Degree Sought: PhD Research Interest: Bioinformatics Mentor: Gilbertson/Becich Training Dates: 10/99 to 8/04 Comparison and integration of gene expression data generated from different microarray platforms using different statistical and machine learning approaches. Will explore the plausibility of integrating gene expression data generated from different microarray platforms and purpose solutions for integration. Andrew Post Home Program: CBMI Degree Sought: PhD Research Interest: Data storage clin lab data Mentor: Harrison Training Dates: 8/99 to present Grant Subsidy: NLM-R01-LM008192-01 Research whether identification and explicit representation of important temporal relationships in clinical laboratory data will further improve the ability of clinicians to reach decisions rapidly and correctly. We propose to test our hypothesis by constructing patient case simulations in which clinician subjects access laboratory data using traditional, problem-oriented, and temporal data-driven displays. Gilan Sadaawi Home Program:CBMI Degree Sought:MS Research Interest:Pathology Informatics Mentor: Harrison Training Dates:07/02/03 to 2004 Grant Subsidy: CAP award, NLM Research goals included the ability to import MS Word documents in their native format, the ability to select sections of the document and assign them as components of our procedure DTD tree using a simple graphical interface and the ability to create a new valid XML text file reflecting these section assignments as XML elements. The editor should thus allow transformation of word processor to XML files without requiring any knowledge of XML or specific document markup. Lei Zheng Home Program: Pathology Informatics Degree Sought: PhD (IS) Research Interest: Color Quantization, Feature Extraction and Color Indexing of Pathology Microscopic Images Mentor: Becich Training Dates: 09/96 to present To apply adaptive color quantization methods of image coding and discrete domain feature extraction in content-based pathology microscopic image retrieval. VISITING INTERNSHIP TRAINEE: Valerie Sweeney Home Program: Library and Information Sciences Research Interest: Informatics Mentor: Harrison Training Dates: Field Placement Project, fall semester 2003 Grant Subsidy: NA The use of XML electronic signatures for chemistry lab procedural manuals. My focus is the map for implementation of the XML digital signature, to facilitate verification of changes in and authorization of the laboratory procedures.