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Brendel Group - Graduate Students

Bing-Bing Wang
Home town: Anxiang, Hunan province, China
B.S. Hunan Agricultural University, 1995
M.S. China Agricultural University, 1999
@ ISU since 1999, Brendel Group since 2000
Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.)
Research interests: plant pre-mRNA splicing

Most recent publication (3 total):
Dong, Q., Kroiss, L., Oakley, F.D., Wang, B.-B. & Brendel, V. (2005) Comparative EST analyses in plant systems. In Molecular Evolution: Producing the Biochemical Data, E.A. Zimmer and E.H. Roalson (eds.), Methods Enzymol., 395, 400-418.

Shannon D. Schlueter
Home town: Sweetwater, TX
B.S., Genetics, Texas A&M University, 2000
@ ISU since 2000, Brendel Group since 2001
Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.)
Research interests: Genome database development, Genome annotation, and Transcriptional control of gene expression

Most recent publication (6 total):
Wilkerson, M.D., Schlueter, S.D. & Brendel, V. (2006) yrGATE: a web-based gene-structure annotation tool for the identification and dissemination of eukaryotic genes. Genome Biol. 7, R58

Yuanbin Ru
Home town: Beihai, Guangxi, China
BS in Biology, 1998, Peking University, Beijing, China
@ ISU since 2002, in Brendel Group since 2002
Program: Interdepartmental Genetics (Ph.D.)
Research interests: pre-mRNA splicing

Michael E. Sparks
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mespar1
Home town: Cicero, Ill.
BS in Biology, 2002, University of Kentucky
@ ISU since 2002, in Brendel Group since 2002
Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.)
Research interests: Alternative splicing and non-coding RNAs in plants

Most recent publication (1 total):
Brendel, V., Pan, X. & Sparks, M.E. (2004) Bioinformatics: The interpretation of genomic information. In R.F. Wilson, H.T. Stalker and C. Brummer (eds.), Legume Crop Genomics, pp. 255-266. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. Press, Champaign, IL, U.S.A.

Matthew D. Wilkerson
Home town: Bethesda, Maryland
B.S. Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, 2003
@ ISU since 2003, Brendel Group since 2003, student since 2004
Program: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Ph.D.)
Research interests: Genome annotation, U12-intron splicing

Most recent publication (6 total):
Duvick, J., Fu, A., Muppirala, U., Sabharval, M., Wilkerson, M.D., Lawrence, C.J., Lushbough, C. & Brendel, V. (2008) PlantGDB: a resource for comparative plant genomics. Nucl. Acids Res. 36, D959-D965.