Investigators
Dong Xu
xudong@missouri.eduCurators’ Distinguished Professor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Dr. Xu is Shumaker Endowed Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with appointments in the Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center and the Informatics Institute at the University of Missouri. His research is in computational biology and bioinformatics. More information about his research can be found here.
Qiuming Yao
qyao3@unl.eduAssistant Professor
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Dr. Yao is the project leader of Integrated Digital Omics Lab (IDOL) at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. His lab develops scalable algorithms, tools and databases in order to integrate different types of high throughput omics data to understand complex biological systems. Dr. Yao's website is linked here.
Jay Thelen
thelenj@missouri.eduProfessor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Dr. Thelen is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Bond Life Sciences Center of the University of Missouri. He is a recipient of both the Mizzou Chancellor’s and Presidential Awards for research creativity and excellence. His lab studies metabolic regulation of oil production in plants, and leverages these findings to engineer higher oil crops.
Collaborators
Ian Wallace
ian.wallace@uga.eduAssociate Professor
University of Georgia
Dr. Wallace is an Associate Professor and the director of the biochemistry graduate program at the University of Nevada. He specializes in molecular biology and molecular cloning, and is the leader of the Wallace Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno. His lab's website can be found here.
Laura Bartley
laura.bartley@wsu.eduAssociate Professor
Washington State University
Dr. Bartley is Associate Professor at Washington State University. She uses her expertise in molecular biology and biochemistry to research the synthesis and regulation of grass cell walls in order to help with the world's energy needs in the future. Her page on WSU's website can be found here.
Gary Stacey
StaceyG@missouri.eduCurators’ Distinguished Professor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Dr. Stacey is a Curators' Professor of Plant Science at the University of Missouri - Columbia, as well as the director of the Legume-Microbe Interactions Laboratory, which broadly focuses on plant and microbe development. His page on Mizzou's website can be found here and his lab's website can be found here.
Developers
Li Su
lisu@mail.missouri.eduPh.D. student, Data Analyst
University of Missouri - Columbia
Li Su is a third year Ph.D. student at DBL. She collects and performs data wrangling for P3DB sites. In addition, she is also interested in single-cell analytics.
Chunhui Xu
cx9p9@mail.missouri.eduPh.D. student, Project Manager and Data Analyst
University of Missouri - Columbia
Chunhui Xu is a Ph.D. student at the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics (MUIDSI). He works as a research assistant for Professor Dong Xu studying deep learning methods to predict bioinformatics topics, including PTM predictions and sequence prediction.
Sai Akhil Chopparapu
scd2z@missouri.eduMain Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Developer Sai Akhil Chopparapu is pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at the University of Missouri. He is from India and interested in Web Application Development. In his free time, Sai loves to travel and play cricket.
Jamal Saied Walker
jsaied@mail.missouri.eduMain Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Jamal is an undergraduate student of Computer Science at the University of Missouri. He has helped develop the full backend system of P3DB. He has also upgraded the entire database in order to fit our new Angular architecture.
Ziting Mao
zmmx6@mail.missouri.eduMain Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Ziting Mao obtained a Master's Degree of Computer Science from MU. He has been involved in several research projects in DigBio Lab, which includes the development of Deep Learning based bioinformatics tools and web development. He has made contributions to the frontend of P3DB and created the pathway image recognition tools.
Trey Shaw
tasztm@mail.missouri.eduMain Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Trey Shaw is main developer of P3DB and a graduate of the University of Missouri Columbia.
Michael Fisher
mef48k@mail.missouri.eduMain Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Michael Fisher is main developer of P3DB and a graduate of the University of Missouri Columbia.
Acknowledgements
Anna Xu
anna.xu@yale.eduIntern Developer
Yale University
Anna is a talented writer who helped create P3DB's tutorial page. She is a junior at Yale University.
Kai Chen
dc57y@missouri.eduIntern Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Kai is an intern developer and sophomore at Mizzou.
Jacob Coberly
coberlyja@mail.umkc.eduIntern Developer
University of Missouri - Columbia
Jacob is an intern developer who aids P3DB in database management. He is a senior at Mizzou.
Chengzi Cao
caochengzij@outlook.comContributor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Chengzi helped design the UI for P3DB. She earned her degree in journalism in August 2020.
Alex Liu
alfzv@missouri.eduContributor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Alex is a P3DB contributor and a CS undergraduate at Mizzou.
Ramya Bhamidipati
nbny6@mail.missouri.eduContributor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Ramya is a previous contributor to P3DB and is a computer science master's student at Mizzou.
Zhi Zhang
Contributor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Zhi Zhang is working towards a master's degree in computer science. He has contributed to P3DB in the past.
Andy Murphy
Contributor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Andy Murphy is a master's student in computer science who has previously worked with P3DB.
Ashwin Kumar Chippa
acc9f@mail.missouri.eduContributor
University of Missouri - Columbia
Ashwin is a computer science student and previous P3DB web designer working towards his master's degree at Mizzou.
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