Eric Talevich

Eric Talevich

Graduate Research Assistant

Bioinformatics


B.S. Applied Mathematics

I work in Dr. Kannan's Evolutionary Systems Biology Group (ESBG). I joined the Institute of Bioinformatics Ph.D. program at UGA in fall 2008.

Contact

Office: A318 Life Sciences Bldg.
E-mail: etal@uga.edu

CV: http://eric.talevich.com/cv.pdf

Lab website: http://esbg.bmb.uga.edu/

Research interests

Recent and current projects

For Google Summer of Code 2009, under the mentorship of National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), I added support for the emerging PhyloXML format Biopython. Since then I've expanded the module and reorganized some existing code into a more general framework for phylogenetics, called Bio.Phylo.

I'm also developing a few other software tools that I plan to release in some form later — including wrappers and extensions to Andy Neuwald's CHAIN program, and some PyMOL-based scripts for visualizing relationships between protein structures.

If you'd like to generate a personal UGA MyWeb page like this one for yourself, try this handy web form. I wrote it for IOB students to use in Fall 2008.

Presentation slides


Courses taken

ID Title Topics
BCMB 8210 Computational Methods in Bioinformatics Sequence comparison and analysis, functional site prediction, structure prediction and analysis, biological data analysis
BINF 6040 Essential Biology for Quantitative Scientists Core concepts in molecular biology
BINF 8990 Bioinformatics Colloquium Weekly seminars by students and established researchers (alternating each week)
CHEM 8330 Molecular Modeling Homology modeling (MOE), MD simulation and refinement (Amber), ligand docking (AutoDock); analysis of model quality and simulation results
CSCI 6470 Algorithms Analysis techniques, design techniques (divide-and-conquer, dynamic programming, greedy, and branch-and-bound), sorting, basic graph algorithms, NP-completeness, approximation algorithms
CSCI 6490 Algorithms for Computational Biology Classical sequence comparison, multiple sequence alignment, DNA sequence assembly, DNA physical mapping, genome rearrangement, evolutionary tree construction, protein folding
GENE 8940 Applied Genome Analysis Genome sequence assembly, automated annotation, large-scale expression studies, proteomics, SNP and comparative genome analysis
GRSC 8550 Responsible Conduct of Research Codes of ethics for professional organizations, intellectual property, human and animal testing, development of personal professionalism and ethics
STAT 6320 Statistical Analysis II Linear regression; multiple regression; associated estimation and inference methods; model building, selection, and diagnostics; analysis of variance; the analysis of covariance; design of experiments; SAS
STAT 6630 Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics I Analysis of single DNA sequences, sequences alignment, BLAST searches, and related topics; simulations with R
STAT 6640 Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics II Sequence comparisons, DNA database searches, evolutionary models, phylogenetic tree construction and related topics