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Alexander V Alekseyenko
3777 Mentone Av #106
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone:310-836-8241   
e-mail: shuriko@BoT-TaK.org
http://www.BoT-TaK.org

Education:
2008 (expected)
Ph.D. student in Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  Advisor: Marc Suchard
                (Dept. of Biomathematics)
  Advisor: Christopher J. Lee
                 (Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry)

2003M.Sc. in Biomathematics
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2002
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
  Advisor: Cenk Sahinalp


Research interests:
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations
  • Stochastic processes
  • Multi-scale modeling in Biology
  • Combinatorial and randomized algorithms
  • Bioinformatics methods for molecular biology and genetics
  • Evolutionary modeling
  • Large-scale genomic data analysis
  • High-throughput experimental data analysis
  • Statistical Genetics
  • Genomics and Proteomics




Professional experience:
November 2002
present
Research Assistant,
Molecular Biology Institute,
Center for Genomics and Proteomics,
Center for Computational Biology,
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Summer 2002
RnD executive project lead,
ZyxBio, LLC
11000 Cedar Ave.,
Cleveland, OH 44106
2001 2002Research Assistant,
Department of Genetics
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH
2001 – 2002Head Teaching Assistant,
Department of Computer Science
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH




Professional service:
 Bioinformatics Student Advisory Board, UCLA (member)



Students mentored:
 Qi Wang (Ph.D. student at UCLA)
 Lukasz Goldschmidt (Ph.D. student at UCLA)


Referee activity:
 Ad hoc reviewer for: Nucleic Acids Research, Trends in Genetics, PNAS


Awards:
 2006 -- presNIH SIB Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles





 
 2005FASEB MARC Travel Fellowship





 
 2003 -- 2005NSF IGERT Graduate Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles





 
 2002 -- 2003Biomathematics Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles





 
 2001 -- 2002Senior Year Scholarship, Case Western Reserve Alumni Association





 



Languages:
 English, Russian, Ukrainian


Skills:
  • Statistical & Math packages: R/Splus, Mathematica, Matlab, SAS
  • Bioinformatics software: clustal, blast, poa, genemine, biopython, bioperl, etc.
  • Programming languages: C/C++, Java, perl, python, lisp, gnu development tools
  • Web and Database: HTML/XML/XSL/CSS, php, web content management, MySQL, DBI
  • OS and environments: Windows 95/NT/2000/XP, Mac OS X, UNIX/Linux, shell scripting



Publications and talks:

Refereed publications

  • Alekseyenko AV., Kim N., Lee CJ, Global analysis of exon creation vs. loss, and the role of alternative splicing, in 17 vertebrate genomes, RNA (2007), 13:661-670. (link)

  • Alekseyenko, AV and Lee, CJ, Nested Containment List (NCList): A new algorithm for accelerating interval query of genome alignment and interval databases. Bioinformatics 2007 23(11):1386-1393; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl647 (link)

  • Kim N, Alekseyenko AV, Roy M, Lee, CJ, The ASAP II database: analysis and comparative genomics of alternative splicing in 15 animal species. Nucleic Acids Research 2007 35(Database issue):D93-D98; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl884

    (link)

  • Resch, A., Xing, Y., Alekseyenko, A., Modrek, B., Lee, C. (2004) Evidence for a subpopulation of conserved alternative splicing events under selection pressure for protein reading frame preservation, Nucl. Acids. Res. 32: 1261-1269. (link)

 Manuscripts in preparation

  • Alekseyenko AV., Lee CJ., Suchard MA. “Wagner and Dollo: a stochastic duet by composing two parsimonious solos” (submitted to Systematic Biology, February, 2008)

  • Alekseyenko AV., Lee CJ. “VEEDB: Verterbrate Exon Evolution Database”

  • Lee CJ*, Pan C., Chen L., Alekseyenko AV. “An Asymmetric Measure of Functional Interactions between Mutations in Highly Polymorphic Sequences” (written 2007, to be re-submitted)

  • Alekseyenko AV. and Lange KL. “Majorization minimization algorithm for genotype frequency estimation from single molecule sequencing using regularized likelihoods”

Invited talks

  • Alekseyenko, AV. “Evolution of alternatively spliced exons via bioinformatic, algorithmicand mathematical modeling techniques”, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA December 2007

  • Alekseyenko, AV. “Computational, comparative and stochastic modeling approaches to creation and loss of alternatively spliced exons”, NCBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD November 2007

Contributed talks and posters
  • Alekseyenko, AV. “Ordering properties of intervals: An enabling perspective for cross-genome databases”, (Poster), Institute for Digital Research and Education, UCLA November 2007
  • Alekseyenko, AV. “Ordering properties of intervals: An enabling perspective for cross-genome databases”, (Poster), Workshop for Young Researchers in Mathematical Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH March 2007
  • Kim, N., Lee, CJ., Alekseyenko, AV., Parker, S. “Pygr: a Python Graph Database Framework for Bioinformatics”, (Software demonstration), ISMB, Fortaleza, Brazil August 2006
  • Alekseyenko, AV. “A comparative genomics approach to distinguishing exon creation and loss shows increased exon creation associated with alternative splicing”, (Elevated abstract), ISMB. Detroit, MI June 2005
  • Lee, CJ., Alekseyenko, AV., Parker, S. “Pygr: a python graph database framework for sequence analysis”, (Software demonstration), ISMB. Detroit, MI June 2005
  • Alekseyenko, AV., Suchard MA. “A stochastic model for creation and loss of sequence blocks”, (Poster), RECOMB. Boston, MA May 2005






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