Bio-X Graduate Student Fellowships 2005/2006

George Asimenos
Computer Science
Professor S. Batzoglou

I am developing a next-generation whole-genome alignment pipeline in order to harvest the enormous wealth of genomic data that is becoming available; mainly the 12 Drosophila genomes and the impending 20 mammalian genomes. I will use these alignments to predict putative functional elements based on constraint of evolution. The challenge is not only to identify such elements, but to understand how they act in the context of specific biological systems. I am currently investigating new high-throughput experimental techniques to study predicted elements during development of the Drosophila embryo.