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About Maricel Kann…

Dr. Maricel Kann is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received a B. Sc. degree in Chemistry and a graduate degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo (Uruguay), where she was research assistant at the Quantum Chemistry Department. In 2001, she obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in Chemistry. Her thesis work under the guidance of Dr. Richard A. Goldstein focused on the theory, statistics and methods for protein sequence alignment. After completing her Ph.D., Dr. Kann joined the Structure group at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NIH) as a postdoctoral fellow. In August 2007, she joined the Department of Biological Sciences at UMBC as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Kann has chaired several conference sessions at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) and the Intelligent Systems and Molecular Biology (ISMB).

Current Students:



Graduate Students:

Ron O'Keefe (rotation student)


Genaro Hernandez (rotation student)



Undergraduate Students:

Richard Blissett


  • Sophomore majoring in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
  • Minor in Journalism.
  • UMBC Premier scholar, awarded by the John H., Sr. and Althea Griner Scholarship fund.
  • Richard also works at Kumon Learning Centers as an instructor.
  • Richard plays trumpet in the UMBC pep band and studies flute.

Richard Blissett receiving the best poster award award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)



EMU's Undergraduate Team:


Team Leaders:

Emily Doughty


  • Bioinformatics Major

Gary Thompson


  • Bioinformatics Major

Emily Doughty and Gary Thompson presenting their work at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD), 2010.


Main Programmers:

Thomas Peterson


  • Information Systems Major, Web Development Certificate


Asa Adadey


  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Major
  • Statistics Minor
  • Computer Science Minor
  • Meyerhoff Scholar
  • MARC U*STAR Scholar
  • International Golden Key Honour Society Member

Asa Adadey presenting his work at the undergraduate symposium for the American Association of Cancer Researchers' (AACR) anual meeting, 2010.



Curators:

Adenike Orogade


  • Biology Major


Arianna Maharaj


  • Biology Major


Aster Kenea


  • Biology Major


Brittany Beach


  • Bioinformatics Major
  • Biology Major


Hanna Fenta


  • Biology Major


Yinka Savage


  • Biology Major

Mileidy Gonzalez at her graduation


Lab Bioinformaticians:


Guisong Wang

 

Nathan Nehrt

 



Lab Alumni:

Alumni Graduate Students

Mileidy Gonzalez



Yanan Sun

  • First year graduate student in the Information Systems department.
  • Yanan likes the outdoors, traveling, movies, and enjoys food but dislikes cooking.

Diana Rengifo

  • first year graduate student in the Information Systems department.


Alumni Undergraduate Students:

Ivette Santana-Cruz

  • Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UMBC, cum laude, Fall 2007.
  • Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages and Linguistics, UMBC, cum laude, Fall 2007.
  • Graduate of Bioinformatics in the Dept. of Biological Sciences, College of Natural and Mathematics, UMBC, 2007.
  • MARC U* STAR scholar, UMBC, Fall 2005 – Spring2007.
  • Meyerhoff Scholar, UMBC, Fall 2005 – December 2007.
  • Hobbies: traveling, gourmet food.
  • Currently at the University of Maryland Institute of Genome Sciences

Brian Bennett

  • Graduated from the bioinformatics department.
  • minor in statistics and computer science.
  • Currently a Ph.D student in Duke University

Andrew Winder

  • Graduated from the Computer Science Department
  • Andrew enjoys football, baseball, and the beach
  • Currently works for USA Football as a software engineer.