User:Elyons
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Eric Lyons, Ph.D
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Professionsal Biography
Education:
Undergraduate 1993-1997 UC Berkeley, Molecular and Cell Biology, Immunology:
- Advisers: Loy Volkman, Jan Washburn, and Eric Haas-Stapleton
- Characterizing the effects on pathogenicity of multiple genome copies in an insect virus. Undergrad Research Summary
Masters 1997-1999 UC Berkeley, Microbial Biology:
- Advisers: Norm Pace and Brian Thomas
- Two years of research focusing on two projects:
- Biochemistry of the catalytic RNA subunit of Ribonuclease P (RNase P), the riboprotein responsible for maturing precursor tRNAs by clearving off a 5' leader sequence.
- Characterization of the microbial diversity of cerumen through 16S and 18S ribsomal gene sequences.
Internship 2000-2001 Molcular Sciences Institute, Computational Biology
- Advisors: Drew Endy and Roger Brent
Designed computational systems for systems biology. Main project was the Stochastirator: a program for simulating intracellular biomolecular reaction networks using a stochastic mathematical framework
PhD 2006-2008 UC Berkeley, Plant Biology:
- Adviser: Michael Freeling
Three years of research focusing on:
- Designing and building CoGe: A new kind of comparative genomics platform
- Studying plant genome evolution
Work Experience
2001 Genencore International, Bioinformatics
- Genome assembly and annotation of fungal genomes
- Identification and characterization of metaloproteases from the human genome
2002-2003 Berlex Biosciences, Computational Biologist
- Expression data analysis of human clinical samples, cell culture samples, and animal models for drug target identification
2004 Biotique Systems, Senior Scientific Developer
- Designed system for visualizing pathway and expression data
2005 UC Berkeley, Programmer/Data Analyst III
- Freeling lab. Plant comparative genomics.
Teaching and Educational Outreach
- 1999 Teaching Assistant for Microbial Diversity, UC Berkeley,
- 2002 Mentor for High School Interns, The Molecular Sciences Institute
- 2004-2006 Medical Virology Co-Instructure, UC Berkeley Extension
- 2005-2006 Adviser for Masters Program in Bioinformatics, Amarita Vishwa Vidyapeetham School of Applied Science, Centre For Biotechnology, Kerala India
- 2005-2008 Perl Programming Workshops (8 weeks), UC Berkeley
- Undergraduate Research Advisor UC Berkeley 2005-present
- 2006-present Comparative Genomics Workshops (day long), UC Berkeley
- 2007 Scientific Reviewer High-school Genetics UC Berkeley Lawrence Hall of Science
- 2007 Teaching Assistant for General Ecoloty, UC Santa Cruz
- 2009 Comparative Genomics Workshop (day long), Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Iowa State University
- 2010 Comparative Genomics Workshop (day long), Annual meeting for the Socienty of Invertebrate Pathology