Graduate Research Assistant
Bioinformatics
B.S. Applied Mathematics
I work in Dr. Kannan's Evolutionary Systems Biology Group (ESBG), where we are currently investigating evolutionary relationships in protein kinase families. I joined the Institute of Bioinformatics Ph.D. program at UGA in fall 2008.
| Office: | A318 Life Sciences Bldg. |
| E-mail: | etal (AT) uga.edu |
Evolutionary analysis of protein families, molecular dynamics, modeling of biological pathways, etc. with eventual medical applications in mind.
CV: http://eric.talevich.com/cv.pdf
I'm taking part in the Google Summer of Code this year, adding a parser and writer for the emerging PhyloXML format to the Biopython toolkit. My mentor for this project is Brad Chapman (another UGA alumnus), with administrative support provided by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent).
To assist my lab's work investigating important differences between related protein kinases, I'm also developing a few software tools to help visualize the relevant parts of these proteins and their differences. This includes some extensions to Andy Neuwald's CHAIN program, and mostly targets PyMOL as the platform for visualizing proteins. I'll set up a web server for this once we're ready to share.
Lab website: http://esbg.bmb.uga.edu/