User:Najaf

Najaf Shah Hartman Lab Department of Genetics and Translational Medicine University of Alabama at Birmingham najafali |AT| gmail |DOT| com

Since September 2005 I've been an intern in the Hood Laboratory at the Institute for Systems Biology. I completed my diploma thesis in March 2006 and I'm currently waiting for my PhD program to start.

Education

• October 2000 to March 2006
  Diploma student, Bioinformatics, University of Tuebingen, Germany
• September 2003 to June 2004
  Visiting graduate student, Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

Research Interests

• integration of large-scale biological data sets
• information visualization
• microarray data analysis
• proteomics mass spectrometry data analysis

Projects

• Mayday - a microarray data analysis workbench.
• Prequips - a proteomics mass spectrometry data analysis tool.

Publications

1. J Dietzsch, N Gehlenborg, and Kay Nieselt, Mayday - a microarray data analysis workbench, Bioinformatics 22(8), 1010-1012, 2006, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl070.
2. N Gehlenborg, J Dietzsch, and K Nieselt, A Framework for Visualization of Microarray Data and Integrated Meta Information, Information Visualization 4(3), 164-175, 2005, doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500094.

Other

• I'm contributing to the ISCB Student Council pages here on OpenWetWare and I'm also the editor for the ISCB Student Council newsletter.
• I'm co-chairing the 2nd ISCB Student Council Symposium in Fortaleza, Brazil.