Raymond J. Carroll is the principal investigator of the training grant, Professor of Statistics, Nutrition and Toxicology, Director of the Center for Statistical Bioinformatics, and Deputy Director of the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science. His main interests involving modeling complex nutrition and genomics data arising from the laboratories of the nutrition mentors in the training grant.
Send Email: carrollATstat.tamu.edu

Dr. Dougherty is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Genomic Signal Processing Laboratory. He is well-known for bringing engineering approaches into genomic, including the analysis of networks and systems biology more generally.
Send Email: edward@ee.tamu.edu

Dr. Turner is an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition & Food Science and serves as Associate Director for the training program. The overall goal of her research is to identify bioactive compounds in the diet that can suppress inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer incidence. She uses animal disease models to study the effect of these compounds on maintenance of redox balance; regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis; DNA damage and repair; regulation of gene transcription and translation; and transmission of signals through a variety of signaling cascades. Techniques used include immunohistochemistry, immunoblotting, gas chromatography, real-time PCR, microarray analysis, and enzyme kinetic assays to ascertain the mechanisms whereby bioactive compounds influence disease development and progression.
Send Email: n-turner@tamu.edu

Dr. Chapkin is established in the areas of transmembrane signaling, protein kinase C signal transduction, and cell/molecular biology techniques. His research has been directed towards the modification of those processes by nutritional and pharmacological intervention. His work is supported by grants primarily from the National Cancer institute. He is the co-director of the Texas A&M genomics facility.
Send Email: r-chapkin@tamu.edu

Dr. Joanne R. Lupton's research focus is on the effect of diet on the gastrointestinal tract with particular emphasis on diet and colon cancer. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the William W. Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition.
Send Email: jlupton@tamu.edu

Dr. Mallick Professor of Statistics, is well-known for his work on Bayesian statistical methodology, especially Bayesian non-parametric methods for clustering, new-works, prediction and expression data.
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Dr. Walzem's research program focuses primarily on lipoprotein biology. Lipoprotein metabolism is exquisitely responsive to diet, and possible relationships between diet-induced alterations in lipoprotein metabolism and carcinogenesis are largely uninvestigated. She joined Texas A&M University in 1999 as an Associate Professor. She is on the editorial board of Poultry Science and was awarded the Amorin Prize in 1995 for her contributions to the area of Wine and Health.
Send Email: rwalzem@poultry.tamu.edu

Clint Allred, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Texas A&M University. Dr. Allred received his B.S. in Animal Science from the University of Georgia in 1997. He completed his Ph.D. in nutrition at the University of Illinois in 2002. He then served as a postdoctoral fellow in the department of pharmacology at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine until August of 2006.
Send Email: callred@tamu.edu

Joseph Sturino, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science. Dr. Sturino's laboratory uses functional genomics (e.g., comparative genomics, targeted gene knockouts, Biolog phenotype microarrays, and oligonucleotide microarrays) to dissect the role of individual genes in coordinating interaction between gastrointestinal microorganisms (both pathogenic and probiotic) and their human host.
Send Email: joseph.sturino@tamu.edu

Dr. Dahl is Associate Professor of Statistics. He focuses on protein structure prediction, developing Bayesian methods to predict the three dimensional structure of proteins given their amino acid sequence. He also works on statistical issues arising from next generation sequencing technologies. Dr. Dahl also develops Bayesian clustering methodology for genomics data.
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Dr.Dr. Dabney is Assistant Professor of Statistics. His research interests are in development of statistical methodology for proteomics.
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Dr. Wu is a Professor of Animal Science, and an expert on glutamine and arganine metabolism and how these molecules are involved in intestinal development of neonates, and in nitric oxide synthesis by mammalian cells. He also studies metabolic changes occurring in colonic epithelial cells.
Send Email: g-wu@tamu.edu

Nancy Amato is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Her lab is interested in developing algorithmic solutions for problems in areas such as computational biology (e.g., protein folding and drug design), motion planning (e.g., animation and robotics), computational geometry, parallel and distributed computing (e.g., parallel algorithms, performance modeling & prediction), and computational science (e.g., physics, geosciences, neuroscience).

Faming Liang is Professor of Computer Science. His major research is in Monte Carlo computation with applications to Bayesian methods, Bioinformatics, Statistical Computing, Proteomics and Optimaization.

Laurie Davidson’s research interests include non-invasive detection of colon cancer markers, modulation of colonic cytokinetics by diet, use of colonic cell lines and experimental animals to study cytokinetics/colon cancer. She also studies protein kinase C modulation of colon carcinogenesis; effects of diet and carcinogen on colonic ras signaling.