Daniel A. Reed, Renaissance Computing Institute
Dan_Reed@unc.edu 919-966-1585

Daniel A. Reed Ph.D., is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor and the founding director of the Renaissance Computing Institute. He also serves as the Vice-Chancellor for Information Technology for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are in high-performance computing, computational Grids, scientific collaboration and computer systems.

Terry Magnuson, Department of Genetics
terry_magnuson@med.unc.edu 919-843-6475

Professor Terry Magnuson Ph.D., is the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor and founding chair of the Department of Genetics at UNC. He also heads the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences (CCGS). The CCGS includes experimental, social and analytical genomics divisions, with the latter unit including specialists in basic and applied biomedical computing.

Bradley Hemminger, School of Information and Library Science
bmh@ils.unc.edu 919-966-2998

Bradley Hemminger, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Library Science. His interests are medical and bio-informatics, computer-human interfaces, digital libraries and open archives and information visualization.

James Evans, Department of Genetics
jpevans@med.unc.edu 919-966-2276

James Evans, M.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and an Associate Director of the CCGS. He is board certified medical geneticist with a special interest in cancer genetics. He is heading a UNC development project to integrate the collection of genetic information and materials throughout the UNC campus.

Andrew Nobel, Department of Statistics
nobel@email.unc.edu 919-962-1352

Andrew Nobel Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Statistics and an adjunct faculty member in the Computer Science Department. He will lead the statistical analysis of subspace clustering techniques and the validity of their results. Andrew has been collaborating with Chuck Perou's laboratory on the analysis of gene expression data and also has research programs in pattern recognition and machine learning.

Kari North, Department of Epidemiology
kari_north@unc.edu 919-966-2148

Kari North Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and a member CCGS. She is a statistical geneticist. She is highly experienced in genetic epidemiology and linkage analysis. She has practical experience in large genetic study design and will act as a collaborator on this project contributing her expertise.

Fernando Manuel Pardo, Department of Genetics
fernando_pardo-manuel@med.unc.edu 919-843-5403

Fernando Manuel Pardo Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of genetics and the CCGS. His interests include quantitative genetic analysis in mice. He has expertise in genetic meiotic segregation and genetic diversity of mice.

Karen Mohlke, Department of Genetics
karen_mohlke@med.unc.edu 919-966-2913

Karen Mohlke Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of genetics and the CCGS. She is interested in the genetic analysis of complex traits. She has been and will be working on the positional cloning of loci for diabetes.

Susan Paulsen, Department of Computer Science
paulsen@cs.unc.edu

Charles Perou, Department of Genetics
chuck_perou@med.unc.edu 919-843-5740

Charles Perou Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and the CCGS. He is interested in transcriptional profiling and the genetic epidemiology of cancer.

Jan Prins, Department of Computer Science
prins@cs.unc.edu 919-962-1913

Jan Prins Ph.D. is a Professor of Computer Science. He has directed or co-directed several large projects to integrate high performance computing techniques into computational science. He will lead the development of high-performance interactive implementations of subspace clustering methods.

Patrick Sullivan, Department of Genetics
patrick_sullivan@med.unc.edu 919-966-3358

Patrick Sullivan M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Genetics, Psychiatry and the CCGS. His interest is principally in behavioral genetics. He is actively involved in large collaborative projects on schizophrenia, smoking dependence and chronic fatigue syndrome.

David Threadgill, Department of Genetics
david_threadgill@med.unc.edu 919-843-6472

David Threadgill Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics and the CCGS. His principal interest is in quantitative genetic analysis of mice and transcriptional profiling.

Alexander Tropsha, School of Pharmacy
alex_tropsha@unc.edu 919-966-2955

Alexander Tropsha Ph.D. is a Professor in the Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Products in the School of Pharmacy and an Associate Director of the CCGS. His principal interests are in biomolecular informatics.

K.T.L. Vaughan, Health Sciences Library
ktlv@email.unc.edu 919-966-8011

K.T. Vaughan, M.S.L.S., is an Assistant Librarian in the Health Sciences Library. Her research interests include the integration of medical and bio-informatics into clinical, research, and teaching practices and the use of library services by interdisciplinary communities of practice. As the Librarian for Bioinformatics and Pharmacy, K.T. coordinates Library services for faculty, staff, students, and the general public in areas of genetics, pharmaceutics, and basic biomedicine.

Fred Wright, Department of Biostatistics
fwright@bios.unc.edu 919-843-3655

Fred Wright Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the CCGS. His principal interests are statistical genetics and the development of analytic methods.

Wei Wang, Department of Computer Science
wangwei@email.unc.edu 919-962-1744

Wei Wang Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. She is an expert in data mining and has developed key algorithms for subspace clustering, as well as mining sequence, spatial and structured data. She is a member of the CCGS and has collaborations with several biological driving problems.

Kirk Wilhelmsen, Department of Genetics
kirk_wilhelmsen@med.unc.edu 919-966-1373

Kirk Wilhelmsen, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics, Neurology, CCGS and Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. His interest is principally in behavioral genetics. He has directed several large-scale family studies related to addiction, has directed a high throughput genotyping laboratory and has collaborated on the genetic analysis for all the studies that he has participated.

Fei Zou, Department of Biostatistics
fzou@bios.unc.edu 919-843-4822

Fei Zou, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and the CCGS. Her interest is in methods of linkage analysis of quantitative traits and association analysis.