BioinfoExperts Contacts:
Dr. Marco Salemi,
is an expert in the field of phylogenetic methods and molecular
evolution of viruses. He has published nearly 40 manuscripts in major
scientific journals, many directly related to the molecular evolution
of HIV, and recently co-authored a book, The Phylogenetic Handbook: a
Practical Approach to DNA and protein phylogeny, which provides
theoretical backgrounds and practical approaches to understanding
phylogenetic analysis and analysis packages. I'm sure you
recognize, with the preliminary analysis he performed for this
proposal, his immense understanding of the various and appropriate
methods to be used for your study.
Dr. Tulio Oliveira
works primarily at University of Oxford, U.K. He is an expert in viral
molecular and evolutionary analysis. Additionally, he is involved
in the creation of many databases and websites (BioAfrica, the GDE
Environment for Linux, the REGA subtyping tool), and skilled at
networking and computer programming.
Susanna L. Lamers has
worked in the area of molecular evolution with an emphasis on the
epidemiology of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus within individuals,
populations and upon transmission events. To allow for the
simultaneous work between laboratories, she started her first
scientific consulting firm in 1995. She has been contracted
individually by researchers at the University of Florida in
Gainesville, FL, The University of Massachusetts, Worchester, MA , the
University of California in San Francisco and the National Institutes
of Health. In 2000, she initiated a plan to develop the first
virus-specific data management and analysis software, called HIVbase.
She successfully funded the project through several NSF and NIH Small
Business Innovated Research grants. The software is now in its
third release and used internationally. Susanna is also a
consultant for the AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource, Michael McGrath
at the University of California in San Francisco, a partner at
BioInfoExperts and the scientific director at Gene Johnson Inc.
Current projects include marketing/licensing of HIVbase software
and the development of a web-based version of HIVbase for the AIDS and
Cancer Specimen Resource at UCSF (with Gene Johnson Inc.), the
study of the evolution of HIV in the central nervous system of patients
that develop dementia (with BioInfoExperts), utilizing HIV as a
biomarker to study metastasis (with BioInfoExperts), the integration of
HIVbase with an evolving neural network application to identify genetic
aspects of HIV responsible for viral tropism (with Gene Johnson
in cooperation with Natural Selection Inc.), and other exploratory
research projects at the AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource.
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