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About Me
• Matt Danzi
• Third year Ph.D. candidate
• B.S. from UNC Chapel Hill in Biology with minors in Computer
Science and Chemistry
• Research Mentors – Vance Lemmon and John Bixby
• Departments: Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and Department of
Neurological Surgery
• Research interest: axon regeneration
• Computational Mentor – Stefan Wuchty
• Department of Computer Science
• Research interest: biological network modelling and prediction
Identifying the Regulators in RNA-Seq Data
Log2(Fold Change)
of Gene Expression
46,078 Genes
4
2
0
-2
-4
Yellow = gene
regulated by
transcription factor
Blue = gene not
regulated by
transcription factor
95
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Factors
What I hope to accomplish by April
• Written and debugged the two planned approaches
• Applied these two approaches to four data sets
• Ideally, see a large degree of similarity between the
results from each of the four data sets