Yuriy Fofanov

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science,
Department of Biology and Biochemistry

Director of the Bioinformatics Lab,
University of Houston,
Houston, TX 77204-3010

Office: 230 Philip G. Hoffman (230PGH)
Phone: (713) 743-8553
Fax: (713) 743-1250
http://www.cs.uh.edu/~fofanov
Email : yfofanov@uh.edu; yfofanov@bioinfo.uh.edu;

Office Hours Fall 2004: TTh 4:30-5:30pm or by appointment

Classes (UH):

• 6371 Bioinformatics (fall 2004)
• 6397 Bioinformatics
• 7397 Advanced Bioinformatics (spring 2005)
• 6320 Data Structures and Algorithms
• 6304 Introduction To Structured Programming and Analysis
• 4310 Programming Languages and Compilers
• 4351 Fundamentals of Software Engineering

Classes (guest lecturer):

• “Computational Mathematics for Biomedical Scientists" Baylor College of Medicine (fall 2001, fall 2002, fall 2003, and fall 2004).
• “Introduction to Computational Biomedicine” School of Health Information Science, University of Texas, Houston, TX (spring 2002).
• “Computational Methods in Molecular Biology” Baylor College of Medicine (summer 2003, summer 2004).
• “Bioinformatics” Rice University, Houston, TX (spring 2003)

Research interests: Bioinformatics. Computer Science. Applied statistics. Mathematical modeling. Information theory.

· Causality in genetic networks

· Microarray technology

· Gene/Protein expression

· Sequence analysis

· Structural identification of nonlinear dependencies

· Mathematical methods of discovering non-linear conformities in experimental data

· Informativity and planning of experiments on discovering nonlinear regularity

Professional memberships and activities:

Membership: W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology
Society for Mathematical Biology

For more information please visit Bioinformatics lab website.