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Christian Zmasek, PhD, joined 小蓝俱乐部is a lead bioinformatics engineer. His main responsibilities are the development of novel software tools and algorithms for the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) and Influenza Research Database (IRD), as well as research on the comparative evolutionary genomics and systems biology of viruses.
Dr. Zmasek has a Diploma in Chemistry and Biology from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Z眉rich, Switzerland and a PhD degree in Molecular Genetics from Washington University in St. Louis. He held a principal scientist position at The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and a postdoctoral position at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute where he investigated the comparative evolutionary genomics of eukaryotic regulatory pathways.
Research Priorities
Development of novel software tools and algorithms for the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) and Influenza Research Database (IRD):
- Development of novel tool for the analysis and visualization of phylogenetic trees (Archaeopteryx.js)
Comparative evolutionary genomics of viruses:
- Application of phylogenomics for the classification of viral proteins
- Reconstruction of the minimal proteomes of Herpes-, Pox-, and Coronaviruses