Our Associated Faculty often join us in order to serve as a thesis advisor or member of a student’s thesis committee. They must have a strong interest in computational biology, participate in program activities and present a lecture to the core faculty. These appointments are time–limited and must be renewed every three years.

Min Choi, Ph.D.
Computer Science
Email: Min.Choi@cudenver.edu
Home Page: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mchoi/
Lab: http://graphics.cudenver.edu
Research Areas: Professor Choi’s research interests are in computer graphics, scientific visualization and human–computer interaction, with an emphasis on physically–based modeling and simulation for medical and bioinformatics applications.
 
Douglas Everett, Ph.D. (Curran-Everett for publications)
Preventive Medicine & Biometrics
Email: EverettD@NJC.ORG
Home Page: http://www.uchsc.edu/physiology/faculty/everett.htm
Research Areas: Professor Everett’s research interests are in the promoting of the proper use of statistics among scientists and clinicians, including the statistics of multiple testing.
 

Katheleen Gardiner, Ph.D

Pediatrics

Email:  katheleen.gardiner@uchsc.edu

Home Page: http://www.uchsc.edu/genetics/bio/gardiner.htm

Research Areas:  Professor Gardiner's laboratory focuses on the molecular basis of the cognitive deficits seen in Down syndrome. Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) is the most common cause of intellectual disability, and is due to an extra copy of human chromosome 21 and the increased expression of some number of the ~500 genes encoded by it.

Mark Geraci, M.D.
Medicine
Email: Mark.Geraci@uchsc.edu
Home Page: http://www.uchsc.edu/pulmonary/faculty/geraci.shtml
Research Areas: Professor Geraci is the Director of the Gene Expression Center, and the Division Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. His research interests are in the role of eicosanoids and pulmonary hypertension and lung cancer, and in the use of gene expression analysis to study disease pathogenesis.
 
Ryan Gill, Ph.D.
Chemical & Biological Engineering
Email: RTG@Colorado.EDU
Home Page: http://www.colorado.edu/che/gillgroup/gillweb/Gill.group.htm
Research Areas: Professor Gill’s research interests are in new tools and theories to study the evolution of microbial genomes, focusing particularly on the evolution of stress tolerance behaviors in E.coli.
 
Norman Pace, Ph.D.
Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Email: Norman.Pace@colorado.edu
Home Page: http://mcdb.colorado.edu/faculty/pace.htm
Research Areas: Professor Pace’s research interests involve the synthesis, structure and function of RNA; and the application of molecular biological tools to problems in environmental microbiology.

Katheryn Resing, Ph.D.
Biochemistry
Email: Katheryn.Resing@colorado.edu
Home Page: http://www.colorado.edu/chemistry/people/resingk.html
Research Areas: Professor Resing’s research interests are in the development of high–throughput mass spectrometry for comparative (quantitative) proteomics and phosphoproteomics, particularly for in-depth profiling of cell lysates.  Her work currently focuses on new computational methods for improved information capture and in simulating the gas phase chemistry of peptide ions.
 
James Sikela, Ph.D.
Pharmacology
Email: James.Sikela@uchsc.edu
Home Page: http://www.uchsc.edu/pharmacology/faculty/sikela/index_sikela.html
Research Areas: Professor Sikela’s research interests are in the development and application of advanced genome technologies, particularly as they apply to understanding of human evolution and human disease.
 
Vic Spitzer, Ph.D.
Cellular & Structural Biology
Email: Vic@visiblehuman.org
Home Page: http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/chs/people/people.html
Professor Spitzer is the director of the Center for Human Simulation and one of the principal architects of the Visible Human Project.
 
Richard Spritz, M.D.
Human Medical Genetics
Email: Richard.Spritz@uchsc.edu
Home Page: http://uchsc.edu/genetics/bio/spritz.htm
Professor Spritz is the director of the Human Medical Genetics Program. The Human Medical Genetics Program at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center is a relatively new, interdisciplinary Ph.D. program designed to provide research training in the rapidly developing area of human genetics, especially as it regards medical aspects of the discipline.
 
Trevor Williams, Ph.D.
Cell and Developmental Biology
Email: Trevor.Williams@uchsc.edu
Home Page: http://uchsc.edu/molbio/williamst.htm
Research Areas: Craniofacial development
 
Mark Yarborough, Ph.D.
Bioethics & Humanities
Professor Yarborough is the Director of the Center For Bioethics and Humanities at UC Denver.
Email: Mark.Yarborough@ucshc.edu
Home Page: http://www.uchsc.edu/cbh/fulginiti_home.html