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Yuriy Fofanov
Associate Professor Director Faculty member Education
  • 1988 Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, Kuibyshev (Samara) State University, Kuibyshev (Samara), USSR
  • 1977 M.Sc. in Physics, Kuibyshev (Samara) State University, Kuibyshev (Samara), USSR
Research Interests Teaching
    Semester Year Course Number Description
    Summer 2001 COSC 6320 Data Structures and Algorithms
    Summer 2001 COSC 4310 Programming Languages and Compilers
    Fall 2001 COSC 6304 Introduction To Structured Programming and Analysis
    Spring 2002 COSC 6397 Bioinformatics
    Fall 2002 COSC 6304 Introduction To Structured Programming and Analysis
    Fall 2002 COSC 6397 Bioinformatics
    Spring 2003 COSC 7397 Advanced Bioinformatics
    Fall 2003 COSC 6397 Bioinformatics
    Spring 2004 COSC 4351 Fundamentals of Software Engineering
    Fall 2004 COSC 6371 Bioinformatics
    Spring 2005 COSC 7397 Advanced Bioinformatics
    Fall 2005 COSC 6371 Bioinformatics
    Spring 2006 COSC 7397 Advanced Bioinformatics
    Fall 2006 COSC 6371 Bioinformatics
    Spring 2007 COSC 7397 Advanced Bioinformatics
    Fall 2007 COSC 6371 Bioinformatics
Professional Service Department:
  • Computer Science Department Curriculum Committee (2004 - present)
  • Computer Science Department Industrial Advisory Committee (2003 - present)
  • Software Engineering Qualifying Examination Committee (2001 - present)
  • Computer Science Department Scholarship Committee (2001 - 2004)
  • Computer Science Department Seminars Organizer (2001-2003)
University:
  • UH Internal Grants Reviewer (2002 - present)
  • UH College of Technology Department of Information and Logistics Technology (ILT) char search committee member (2005 - 2005)
  • UH alternate representative to WM Keck Center of Computational Biology executive committee (2002 - present)
Community:
  • Judge: Houston science fair (2005, 2006)
  • Judge: Conroe ISD science fair (2005, 2006)
Conference Organizer:
  • The 20th, 21th, and 22th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, TX: The Houston Society for Engineering in Medicine and Biology (Chair/Co-Chair of the Bioinformatics section)
  • Symposium "Computational Molecular Biology: The Future", (Co-Chair) Houston 2005
Government/Industry Services:
  • NSF panel member (2004 - present)
  • Pennsylvania Department of Health panel member (2002)
  • Bioinformatics and Infectious Diseases
  • Bioinformatics and Cancer
Reviewer:
  • Biophysical Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry
Academic Societies:
  • Society for Mathematical Biology
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Invited Talks
  • CIMAT (El Cenrto de Investigacion oe Matamaticas) Guanajutuato, Mexico,
     "Statistical Properties of Short Subsequences in Microbial Genomes and They Link to Pathogen Identification and Evolution" (April, 2006)

  • UK-Texas Collaborative Initiative in Bioscience Partnering Workshop: Molecular Signature of Cancer - Bench to Clinic and Back Again (Oxford, UK).
    "Microarray Experiments in Cancer Research: Biological Variation vs. Technical Variation" (January 2006)

  • The second Texas Influenza Research Club Meeting (Houston, TX).
    "Ultraspecific Primers and Probes for Viral Identification and Detection" (Fall 2005)

  • UT School of Public Health (Houston, TX).
    "Statistical Properties of Short Subsequences in Microbial Genomes and Their Link to Pathogen Evolution and Identification" (Fall 2005)

  • UTMB Seminar (Galveston, TX).
    "Statistical Properties of Short Subsequences in Microbial Genomes and Their Link to Pathogen Evolution and Identification" (Fall 2005)

  • Lawrence Livermore National Lab (Livermore, CA).
    "Ultraspecific Probes/Primers for Detecting Emerging or Engineered Pathogens" (Spring 2005)

  • U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) (Frederick, MD).
    "Ultraspecific Probes ‘Blind’ to the Host and Background DNA for Microbial and Viral Identification" (Spring 2005)

  • Cepheid, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA).
    "Ultraspecific Probes/Primers for Pathogen Identification" (Spring 2005)

  • CombiMatrix, Inc. (Bellevue, WA).
    "Ultraspecific Probes for Pathogen Identification and Classification" (Spring 2005)

  • UTMB Seminar (Galveston, TX).
    "Ultraspecific Probes Detecting CDC Category A & B Agents" (Spring 2004)

  • Xeotron, Inc. (Houston, TX).
    "A comparative analysis of the presence of short subsequences in genomes" (Spring 2003)

  • A & M University Statistics Department Seminar (College Station, TX).
    "A comparative analysis of the presence of all possible short subsequences of length 5 to 20 nucleotides in genomes" (Spring 2003)

  • University of Arizona Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Cell Signaling (Tucson, AZ).
    • "A comparative analysis of the presence of all possible short subsequences of length 5 to 20 nucleotides in genomes" (Spring 2003)
    • "Reverse Engineering of the Genetic Regulatory Networks" (Spring 2003)

  • Rice University Statistics Department seminar (Houston, TX).
    "A comparative analysis of the presence of all possible short subsequences of length 5 to 20 nucleotides in genomes" (Fall 2002)

  • UH Biology & Biochemistry Seminar (Houston, TX).
    "Genetic regulatory networks" (Fall 2002)

  • UH College of Engineering Seminar (Houston, TX).
    "Reverse engineering of the Genetic regulatory networks" (Fall 2002)

  • UTMB Seminar (Galveston, TX).
    "A comparative analysis of the presence of short subsequences in genomes" (Fall 2002)

  • UH CS Department Seminar (Houston, TX).
    "Reverse engineering of the Genetic regulatory networks" (Fall 2001)

  • W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology Seminar (Houston, TX).
    "Causal Relationships in Genetic Regulatory Networks" (Fall 2001)
Contact Information:

501 Philip G. Hoffman Hall
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-3010
Tel: (713) 743-8553
Fax: (713) 743-1250
yfofanov@uh.edu

State Of Texas - City Of Houston - University Of Houston - U.H., Department Of Computer Science - U.H., Department Of Biology - TLC2