Alain Laederach, PhD

Professor of Biology

Core Faculty Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Computational Genomics
Research Interests:

RNA bioinformatics and transcriptomics

Phone: 919-962-4565 | Office: 3354 Genome Sciences Bldg.
Email: alain@unc.edu | Website: http://ribosnitch.bio.unc.edu/The_Laederach_Lab/Welcome.html

Jeremy Purvis, PhD

Associate Professor of Genetics

Core Faculty Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Computational Systems Biology, Image Analysis
Research Interests:

Our lab uses computational and experimental approaches to study signaling mechanisms in stem cells and cancer pathways.

Phone: 919-962-4923 | Office: 11018C Mary Ellen Jones Building
Email: jeremy_purvis@med.unc.edu | Website: http://genetics.unc.edu/purvislab/

Brian Kuhlman, PhD

Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Core Faculty Research Areas: Computational Biophysics
Research Interests:

Protein Engineering and Design

Phone: 919-843-0188 | Office: 3096 Genetic Medicine Bldg.
Email: bkuhlman@email.unc.edu | Website: https://sites.google.com/site/kuhlmanlabwebpage/

Terry Furey, PhD

Professor of Genetics and Biology

Core Faculty Research Areas: Computational Genomics, Computational Systems Biology
Research Interests:

The Furey Lab is focused on understanding chromatin structure and gene regulation in normal and diseased cells, primarily through the analysis of data from functional high-throughput sequencing experiments.

Phone: 919-966-7033 | Office: 5022 Genetic Medicine Bldg.
Email: tsfurey@email.unc.edu | Website: http://fureylab.web.unc.edu/

Alex Tropsha, PhD

K.H. Lee Distinguished Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry

Core Faculty Research Areas:
Research Interests:

Computational drug discovery; Cheminformatics; Computational geometry of protein structure

Phone: 919-966-2955 | Office: 100K Beard Hall
Email: alex_tropsha@unc.edu | Website: https://pharmacy.unc.edu/Directory/tropsha

Timothy Elston, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology

Core Faculty Research Areas: Computational Biophysics, Computational Systems Biology, Image Analysis
Research Interests:

Mathematical modeling of signaling pathways and regulatory networks

Phone: 919-843-7670 | Office: 4092 Genetic Medicine Bldg.
Email: telston@med.unc.edu | Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/pharm/elstonlab/

William Valdar, PhD

Professor of Genetics

Core Faculty Research Areas: Computational Genomics, Statistical and Populational Genetics
Research Interests:

Quantitative and statistical genetics: modeling the relationship between genes and complex disease in model organisms and humans.

Phone: 919-843-2833 | Office: 5044 Genetic Medicine Building
Email: william.valdar@unc.edu | Website: http://valdarlab.unc.edu