Shaolei Teng, Ph. D. (PI)
Dr. Shaolei Teng is an Associate Professor of the Department of Biology at Howard University. He received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Clemson University, SC, and completed his postdoctoral training in Bioinformatics and Genomics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY. Dr. Teng’s research interests are to develop and apply bioinformatics approaches for analyzing the genetic variations associated with human diseases and discovering biological knowledge hidden in the massive data sets. His group at Howard University is currently focused on three research areas including machine learning, next-generation sequencing and protein structure modeling. Dr. Teng has published more than twenty papers in the peer-reviewed journals such as Molecular Psychiatry, BMC Genomics, Amino Acids and Biophysical Journal.
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Dr. Adebiyi Sobitan
Post Doctoral Researcher
Previous Graduate Student
Vidhyanand Mahase
PhD Student
Ted Edwards
PhD Student
Dr. Raina Rhoades
Previous Graduate Student
Undergraduate Students
Farion Cooper II. (Rhodes Scholarship Finalist)
Stephanie Buggs
Christina V Johnson
Nina Brown
Sagar Raju
Kaelyn Gordon*
Daniel Davis
Jayla Allums*
Georgia Simpson*
Naomi A Rankin*
Raad Khan
Madison Witcher
Candace Williams*
Stacy Polanco
Whitley Hatton*
Andrew Castro*
Kanicia Green*
Ebony Montgomery
Amoge Ezike
Abhishek Tippabhatla
Elasha Colby
Kymberlee Hill*
Ashley McKoy*
Ryan Drew*
Amber Childs-Santos*
Lindelwa Mamba*
Rekhia Bernard
* Institutional Research Program at Howard University (IREPHU) Mentees