The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech

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  • Jorge Jimenez Jorge Jimenez Research Engineer Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Office: IBB 2130 Phone: 404.894.5353 Email address: gtg775c@mail.gatech.edu Lab Web site: http://www.bme.gatech.edu/groups/cfmg/group/home.htm Research Interests Prof. Yoganathan Research Lab
  • Hanjoong Jo Hanjoong Jo Professor Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Office: Emory WMB 308D Phone: 404.712.9654 Email address: hanjoong.jo@bme.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.bme.emory.edu/facultystaff/faculty_record.php?id=19 Lab Web site: http://www.bme.emory.edu/~hjo/ Research Interests Shear dependent regulation of BMP4, Role of BMP4 in Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Aortic valve diseases, Role of shear on gene profiles, angiogenesis and redox status.
  • I. King Jordan I. King Jordan Associate Professor School of Biology Office: Cherry Emerson 215 Phone: 404.385.2224 Email address: king.jordan@biology.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.biology.gatech.edu/faculty/king-jordan/ Lab Web site: http://esbg.biology.gatech.edu/lab/ Research Interests My research program is focused on understanding the genome level determinants of the diversification between evolutionary lineages. The approach that I use towards this end is computationally based and consists of the comparative analysis of large-scale genomic sequence, expression and functional data sets. This approach is facilitated by the accumulation of genome-scale data sets and the continuing development of the computational applications and infrastructure needed to exploit such data. Ultimately, I hope to integrate our understanding of how evolutionary forces play out at distinct levels of biological organization. More specifically, I am interested in understanding the nature of evolutionary innovations that have led to the emergence of complexity in eukaryotic lineages. I currently explore three distinct research areas relating to the evolution of eukaryotic genome complexity: i-the contributions of transposable elements to host gene regulatory and protein coding sequences, ii-the tempo and mode of gene regulatory and expression divergence and iii-convergent evolution of gene function.