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Brandon Barker
Division of Nutritional SciencesCornell University317 Savage HallGarden Ave.Ithaca, NY 14853(607) 262-6009
brandon.barker@gmail.com
Cornell University
, Ithaca, NY.
Education
Ph.D. in Computational Biology and Medicine, expected June 2013.Thesis Advisor: Zhenglong Gu.
University of Kentucky
, Lexington, KY.B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics, Aug 2006.
Yeast Metabolism, Biological Robustness, Flux Balance Analysis,
Research
Mathematical Programming, Image Analysis, Sequence Alignment.
Publications:
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Zanders, S., Ma, X., RoyChoudhury, A., Hernandez, R., Demogines, A., Barker, B.,Indap, A., Gu, Z., Bustamante, C., & Alani, E.
Identification of a mutational hotspot in yeast and humans by whole-genome sequencing.
In revision, PLoS Biology.
Bioinformatics IT Specialist
(Aug 2006 – June 2008) Assist in Bioinformatics Research,
WorkExperience
develop and administer a microarray database, Department of Biology,University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Cluster Administrator
(May 2006 – Aug 2006)Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Grader
(2004) Graded papers and projects for a Compilers class,Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Research Summer Internship
(Summer 2003)Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.– Supported by the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network.
NIH Training Grant GM083937-01A1, 2009-2010.
Honors andAwards
Tri-Institutional Fellowship 2008-2013.
Senior Design project: Robot design, won 2nd place out of 7 at UK ECE competition, 2005,project page located at URL:=
http://sweb.uky.edu/
bebark2/IEEERobot2005/
.
University of Kentucky IEEE ECC Officer 2005.
University of Kentucky Microsoft Student Ambassador 2004-2005.
KEES Scholarship 2002-2006.
Henry Mason Lutes Scholarship.
Thurston Strunk Scholarship.
University of Kentucky Academic Scholarship.

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