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Shawn Gomez
Assistant Professor, Primary Core Faculty


Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering
UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University


UNC Chapel Hill Office
144-B MacNider Hall
UNC Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7575
Phone: 919-966-4959
Fax: 919-966-2963

E-mail: 

Homepage: http://gomezlab.bme.unc.edu

Primary Research Area:

Biomedical Engineering including Bioinformatics, Genetics, Genomics, Mathematical Modeling, Systems Biology

Communications and Signal Processing including Image Analysis

Education:

B.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Eng.Sc.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York

Recent Publications:

  1. Rosinski-Chupin, I., Briolay, J., Brouilly, P., Perrot, S., Gomez, S.M., Chertemps, T., Roth, C.W., Keime, C., Gandrillon, O., Couble, P. and Brey, P.T. (in press) SAGE analysis of mosquito salivary gland transcriptomes during plasmodium invasion. Cellular Microbiology.
  2. Li, J., Riehle, M.M., Zhang, Y., Xu, J., Odul, F., Gomez, S.M., Eiglmeier, K., Ueberheide, B.M., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D.F., Ribeiro, J.M.C., and Vernick, K.D. (2006) Anopheles gambiae genome reannotation through synthesis of ab initio and comparative gene prediction algorithms. Genome Biology. 7:R24.
  3. Gomez, S.M.*, Eiglmeier, K.*, Segurens, B., Dehoux, P., Couloux, A., Scarpelli, C., Wincker, P., Weissenbach, J., Brey, P.T., and Roth, C.W. (2005) Pilot Anopheles gambiae full – length cDNA study: Sequencing and initial characterization of 35,575 clones. Genome Biology. 6:R39. (* - contributed equally to this work)
  4. Chien, M., Morozova, I., Shi, S., Sheng, H., Chen, J., Gomez, S.M., Asamani, G., Hill, K., Nuara, J., Feder, M., Rineer, J., Greenberg, J.J., Steshenko, V., Park, S.H., Zhao, B., Teplitskaya, E., Edwards, J.R., Pampou, S., Georghiou, A., Chou, I.C., Iannuccilli, W., Ulz, M.E., Kim, D.H., Geringer-Sameth, A., Goldsberry, C., Morozov, P., Fischer, S.G., Segal, G., Qu, X., Rzhetsky, A., Zhang, P., Cayanis, E., De Jong, P.J., Ju, J., Kalachikov, S., Shuman, H.A., and Russo, J.J. (2004) The genomic sequence of the accidental pathogen Legionella pneumophila. Science. 305:1966-1968.
  5. Gomez, S.M., Noble, W.S. and Rzhetsky, A. (2003) Learning to predict protein-protein interactions from protein sequences. Bioinformatics. Oct 12;19(15):1875-81.
  6. Gomez, S.M. (2003) Network approaches to genome annotation and the challenge of Anopheles gambiae. Molecules & Cells. 15:159-163.
  7. Gomez, S.M. (2003) Prediction of protein-protein interaction networks. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. Unit 8.2.
  8. Krauthammer, M., Kra, P., Iossifov, I., Gomez, S.M., Hripcsak, G., Hatzivassiloglou, V., Friedman, C., Rzhetsky, A. (2002) Of truth and pathways: chasing bits of information through myriads of articles. Bioinformatics. ISMB 2002. Jul;18 Suppl 1:S249-S257.
  9. Gomez, S.M. and Rzhetsky, A. (2002) Towards the prediction of complete protein-protein interaction networks. Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 7. pp 474-85.
  10. Gomez, S.M., Lo, S.H. and Rzhetsky, A. (2001) Probabilistic prediction of unknown metabolic and signal-transduction networks. Genetics. Nov;159(3):1291-8.
  11. Rzhetsky, A. and Gomez, S.M. (2001) Birth of scale-free molecular networks and the number of distinct DNA and protein domains per genome. Bioinformatics. Oct;17(10):988-96.
  12. Rzhetsky, A., Koike, T., Kalachikov, S., Gomez, S.M., Krauthammer, M., Kaplan, S.H., Kra, P., Russo, J.J. and Friedman, C.A. (2000) Knowledge model for analysis and simulation of regulatory networks. Bioinformatics. Dec;16(12):1120-8.
  13. Gomez, S.M., Choy, G., Kabir, N., Leonard, E.F. (1999) Capture of rare cells in suspension with antibody-coated polystyrene beads. Biotechnology Progress. Mar-Apr;15(2):238-44.
  14. Omurtag, A.C. Stickel, V.G. Jr., Gomez, S.M., Leonard, E.F. and Chevray, R. (1997) Transport and separation of particles by chaotic advection. Proceedings Theme A, 27th Congress of the Int’l Assoc. for Hydraulic Research, Water Resources Engineering Division/ASCE.
  15. Hoehn, A., Gomez, S.M., and Luttges, M.W. (1992) The Lunar CELSS Test Module. AIAA paper 92-1094, AIAA, Aerospace Design Conference, Irvine, CA, Feb. 3-6.

Date of Last Modification: 10/26/2006

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