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I am a fifth-year Ph.D. student, in actuality here in the Church lab and officially in the Bioinformatics Program at BU. I am collaborating with Fritz Roth on his current project #7, and my #1, a search for sequence motifs involved in alternative splicing. My co-advisor at BU is Ulla Hansen, and Joel Graber is the fourth member of my thesis committee.
Here is my brief list of publications. There's another lung cancer paper in the works, but most of the interesting things I've worked on are not quite finished (a bias on Affymetrix chips, trans splicing in humans). I'm remotely interested in bioremediation, particularly the use of bacteria to degrade plastic, but more interested in alternative splicing.
Following my cousin Gzim (humbly) and preceding my cousin Bekim, I got my BS in computer engineering from RIT, where I'm on the advisory board of the very well conceived (and New-York-State-approved) BS & MS programs in bioinformatics. Coincidentally, RIT is partnering with the American University in Kosova. I worked for years in industry in software development, and got my master's in biomedical engineering at Case Western during that time. Besides signal processing, physiology, neural nets and genetic algorithms, I took a genetic engineering lab taught by Christopher Cullis, during which I became fascinated with DNA and discovered that my name is actually spelled "aDNAn", or "ADNan" if you're Albanian or French. I transferred within Chiron (later Bayer) from development to research, where I worked on microarrays and sequence analysis for Steve Bushnell, now at Aventis, and John Monahan, now at Millennium. To finish my master's, I took a class at MIT taught by Phil Sharp and David Baltimore, during which I learned that they were Nobel laureates, and I first heard the term "alternative splicing" from the teaching assistant, Lee Lim.
From 2000 to 2002, I was supported by The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, which I received for volunteer work with Kosovar refugee kids.
Ome fever: what do you call the universe of books? The tome.
Genome that should be sequenced: that of the giant sequoia (no natural life span; they grow til they collapse or get struck too many times by lightning, or a mere mortal with an axe; implications for cell cycle & cancer?). (Suggestion sent to JGI 6/10/04.) book reviews
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adnan@genetics.med.harvard.edu
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E. coli
| in-frame knockout primers | ORF (near-)overlaps | cross-hyb | 5' 25mers | upstream 25mers |
| cross-hyb |
| IUPAC degeneracies | |
| merge SAGE tags | eliminACE |
| Find unique regions in DNA sequences | |
| translate NA sequences | test |
"You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature." Paul Lauterbur, 2003 Nobel laureate for Medicine along with Sir Peter Mansfield. NYT 10/6/2003.