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Work at VBI spans many disciplines but has at its foundation the sciences of biology, computer science and information technologies. Faculty at VBI use a wide variety of methods and tools that range from simulation and modeling of biological networks, statistical genetics and large-scale comparative genomics to computational systems biology, microfluidic mass spectrometry and different cyberinfrastructure-based resources. These tools and methods are being used to investigate plant and animal pathogens, make advances in infectious disease research and to better understand a wide range of biological, information, social and technological systems.

Christopher Barrett
Scientific Director
Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Director, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Director, VBI-National Capital Region
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Phone:(540) 231-1745
Email: cbarrett@vbi.vt.edu

Research Focus:
Network dynamics and simulation science

Josep Bassaganya-Riera
Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Professor, Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences
Director, Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology

Phone:(540) 231-7421
Email: jbassaga@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory | Publications | Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory Web Portal | Center for Modeling Immunity to Enteric Pathogens

Research Focus:
Modeling immune responses, nutritional immunology, gastrointestinal health, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity

Keith Bisset
Simulation and Systems Software Development Scientist

Phone:(540) 231-3849
Email: kbisset@vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab

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Lauren Coble
Chief Operating Officer

Phone:(540) 231-1395
Email: laurenc@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Administration | Publications

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Kristy Collins
Graduate and Post-Graduate Education Program Manager

Phone:(540) 231-1389
Email: kdivitto@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Education and Outreach Group | Publications | Kids' Tech University homepage | Kids' Tech University blog

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Dennis Dean
Director of Life Science
Director, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Phone:540-231-5895
Email: deandr@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | BioSystems | Office of the Director | Publications

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Allan Dickerman
Research Assistant Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Phone:(540) 231-1397
Email: dickerman@vt.edu

Personal Page | Dickerman Research Group | Publications

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Phylogenomics research, comparative and functional genomics

Stephen Eubank
Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Deputy Director, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics

Phone:(540) 231-2504
Email: seubank@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | NDSSL Research Group

Research Focus:
Network dynamics and simulation science

Joseph Gabbard
Research Assistant Professor

Phone:(540) 231-3559
Email: jgabbard@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Publications

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Harold Garner
Director, Medical Informatics and Systems Division
Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Professor, Department of Biological Science, Virginia Tech
Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Professor, Department of Basic Science, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Phone:(540) 231-8920
Email: garner@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Garner Research Group | Medical Informatics and Systems | Publications | Laboratory Web Site

Research Focus:
Applied computational biology; the intertwining of genetics, genomics and proteomics research with bioinformatics, especially as it applies to the discovery of human disease biomarkers and drug targets, especially in the area of cancer research.

Joseph Gillespie
Senior Computational Biologist

Phone:(540) 231-4869
Email: jgille@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Publications

Research Focus:
Molecular evolutionary biology; organismal evolution; phylogenomics; phylogenetics; bioinformatics; evolution of obligate intracellular bacteria

Stanley Hefta
Director, Strategic Planning and Business Development

Phone:(540) 231-6585
Email: shefta@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Strategic Business Development and Planning Group | Publications

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Ina Hoeschele
Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Professor, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Biostatistics Core
Member, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC
Adjunct Professor, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Phone:(540) 231-3135
Email: inah@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Hoeschele Research Group | Publications | SysGenSIM

Research Focus:
Genetic architecture of quantitative traits

Raquel Hontecillas-Magarzo
Assistant Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Phone:(540) 231-7276
Email: rmagarzo@vbi.vt.edu

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Stefan Hoops
Computational Systems Biologist

Phone:(540) 231-1799
Email: shoops@vt.edu

Research Focus:
Modeling and simulation of biochemical networks and systems biology research

Shiv Kale
VBI Independence Fellow

Phone:(540) 231-3784
Email: sdkale@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Kale Research Group | Publications

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Ronald Kenyon
Director, Project Management

Phone:(540) 231-7470
Email: rkenyon@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Project Management Group | Publications

Research Focus:
Management of Bioinformatics resource development projects

Reinhard Laubenbacher
Adjunct Faculty
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech

Phone:(540) 231-7506
Email: reinhard@vbi.vt.edu

Research Focus:
Computational systems biology, cancer systems biology, mathematical algorithms and software for modeling and simulation of biological networks

Bruce Lawlor
Enterprise Director, National Security Decision Informatics

Phone:
Email: bruce.lawlor@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | SDIL | Publications

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Christopher Lawrence
Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech

Phone:(540) 231-1907
Email: lawrence@vbi.vt.edu

Research Focus:
Fungal-associated Respiratory Diseases of Humans

Chunhong Mao
Senior Project Associate

Phone:(540) 231-7758
Email: cmao@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Publications

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Achla Marathe
Lead Economist, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech

Phone:(540) 231-9210
Email: amarathe@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | NDSSL Research Group

Research Focus:
Network dynamics and simulation science

Madhav Marathe
Deputy Director, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Professor, Computer Science
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Phone:(540) 231-8832
Email: mmarathe@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | NDSSL Research Group

Research Focus:
Network Science, Theoretical Computer Science, High Performance Computing, Socially Coupled Systems, Graphical Dynamical Systems

Pawel Michalak
Associate Professor

Phone:(540) 231-3489
Email: pawel@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Michalak Research Group | Publications

Research Focus:
Comparative genomics and evolution

David Mittelman
Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech

Phone:(540) 231-6430
Email: mittelma@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Genetics and Genomic Medicine Lab | Publications | Mittelman Lab at VT

Research Focus:
The molecular basis for common trait variation and disease; and the development of gene disruption and gene correction technologies.

Henning Mortveit
Associate Professor, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Phone:(540) 231-5327
Email: hmortvei@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | NDSSL Research Group

Research Focus:
Network dynamics and simulation science

Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine

Phone:(540) 231-8015
Email: biswarup@vt.edu

Personal Page | Microbial Diversity Group | Publications | NSF-REU Site: Microbiology in the Post Genome Era

Research Focus:
Methanogenic archaea, coalbed methane and mycobacteria

Jean Peccoud
Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute

Phone:(540) 231-0403
Email: jpeccoud@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Synthetic Biology Research Group | Publications | Laboratory web site

Research Focus:
Artificial gene networks and synthetic biology

Pedro Pedrosa Mendes
Associate Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech

Phone:(540) 231-7411
Email: mendes@vt.edu

Personal Page | Biochemical Networks Modeling Group | Publications | COPASI: biochemical network simulator

Research Focus:
Modeling and simulation of biochemical networks and systems biology research

Andy Pereira
Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Adjunct Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
Adjunct Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech

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Email: pereiraa@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Publications

Research Focus:
Plant responses to external stress

Endang Purwantini
Senior Project Associate

Phone:(540) 231-4395
Email: epurwant@vt.edu

Personal Page | Microbial Diversity Group | Publications | Mycobacterial Research Program

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Robert Settlage
Director, Data Analysis Core

Phone:(540) 231-2777
Email: rsettlage@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Data Analysis Core | Genomics Research Laboratory | Publications

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Joao Setubal
Adjunct Faculty, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Phone:
Email: setubal@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Publications | website | JCS's main home page

Research Focus:
Bacterial genomics and bioinformatics

Kevin Shinpaugh
Director, Information Technology and Computing Services

Phone:(540) 231-1246
Email: kashin@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Core | Publications

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Bruno Sobral
Adjunct Faculty
Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Phone:(540) 231-2317
Email: sobral@vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Publications

Research Focus:
Cyberinfrastructure, host-pathogen-environment interactions, alpha-proteobacteria and prokaryotic life inside eukaryotic cells

Daniel Sullivan
Senior Database Architect

Phone:(540) 231-3530
Email: dsulliva@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Publications | PATRIC Bioinformatics Center

Research Focus:
Cyberinfrastructure, computational biology, metagenomics, text mining

Samarth Swarup
Applied Computer Scientist

Phone:(540) 231-1248
Email: swarup@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | Personal and Research website

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Brett Tyler
Adjunct Faculty
Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science

Phone:
Email: btyler@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Publications | Oomycete Molecular Genetics Research Collaboration Network | Plant-Associated Microbe Gene Ontology

Research Focus:
Genomic and bioinformatic analysis of Phytophthora-host interactions

Anael Verdugo
Postdoctoral Associate, Mathematical Modeler

Phone:(540) 231-3216
Email: verdugo@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Laubenbacher Research Group | Publications

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Anil Vullikanti
Associate Professor, Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Phone:(540) 231-3968
Email: akumar@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory | Publications | NDSSL Research Group

Research Focus:
Network dynamics and simulation science

Rebecca Wattam
Senior Bioscientist and Computational Biologist

Phone:(540) 231-1263
Email: wattam@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Cyberinfrastructure Division | Publications

Research Focus:
PATRIC project and comparative genomics of bacteria

Rebecca Will
Cyberinfrastructure Division Software Development Lead

Phone:(540) 231-8395
Email: rwill1@vbi.vt.edu

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Hehuang Xie
Associate Professor

Phone:(540) 231-9224
Email: davidxie@vbi.vt.edu

Personal Page | Epigenomics and Computational Biology Lab | Publications

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