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Stanislav Luban Stanislav Luban
Graduate Researcher, UCSD and Burnham Institute

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, M.S.
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive M/C 0412
La Jolla, CA 92093-0412, USA
phone: 574-276-8737
e-mail:   sluban@gmail.com
web:   http://bioinf.ucsd.edu/~sluban

Research: Computational Biology, Gene Expression Analysis, Stem Cell Differentiation, Cardiogenesis, Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue-Level Aging, Protein Function Prediction, Small RNAs and RNA Interference, Nucleic Acid Testing, Sequencing, Proteomics.
  EAPSI Award, Peking Univ. People's Hospital, China 2009
  Pfizer Research and Development Internship Program, 2008
  Howard Hughes Research Internship Award, 2004/2005
  Comp. Rsrch. Assoc. Outst. Ugrad. Awd., Hnr. Ment., 2004
  Purdue Comp. Sci. Lockheed Martin Scholar Award, 2004
Education: B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Genetic Biology, Specializing in Computational Biology, Purdue University, IN, 2005.
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Publications:
  • S. Luban and Z. Li. (2010) ‘Citrullinated peptide and its relevance to rheumatoid arthritis: an update’, International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases. PubMed
  • T. Hawkins, M. Chitale, S. Luban, and D. Kihara. (2008) ‘PFP: Automated prediction of gene ontology functional annotations with confidence scores’, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. PubMed
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (2007) ‘Comparative genomics of small RNAs in bacterial genomes’, Omics, 11:58-73. PubMed
  • D. Kihara, T. Hawkins, S. Luban, B. Li, K. Ramani, and M. Agrawal. (2007) ‘Protein function prediction in Proteomics Era’, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Frontiers of Computational Science, Y Kaneda et al. eds., pp. 143-148, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  • T. Hawkins, S. Luban, and D. Kihara. (2006) ‘Enhanced automated function prediction using distantly related sequences and contextual association by PFP’, Protein Sci., 15:1550-1556. PubMed
  • A. Pluzhnikov, W. Wen, S. Luban, Y. Chen, and N.J. Cox. (2002) ‘Efficient construction of genetic maps based on publicly available physical and genetic map data’, The American Journal of Human Genetics 73(5): 438, Suppl.

    Poster and Oral Presentations:
  • S. Luban (Oct. 2010) ‘How and Why to Influence Your Stem Cells’, Personalized Life Extension Conference, San Francisco, CA. Slides
  • M. Mercola, F. Lo, V. Bhargava, E. Willems, P. Bushway, C. Walsh, S. Luban, J.C.I. Belmonte, and S. Subramaniam. (Sept. 2008) ‘Reconstructing Signal Transduction Pathways in Stem Cell Cardiomyogenesis’, NHLBI Exploratory Program in Systems Biology Grantees Meeting, Bethesda, MD.
  • S. Luban and S. Schefzick. (August 2008) ‘Crystallography Tool Suite: Development and Application to Drug Discovery’, Pfizer Summer Internship Program Presentation, La Jolla, CA.
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (May 2006) ‘Identification of Coiled-Coils in E. coli Interactome’, Third Annual Indiana Bioinformatics Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (Nov. 2005) ‘Conserved Non-Coding RNA Families in Gamma-Proteobacteria’, Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Argonne, IL.
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (May 2004) ‘Comparative Study of Structural Non-Coding RNA in Microbial Genomes’, First Annual Indiana Bioinformatics Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (Nov. 2004) ‘Conserved Non-Coding RNA Families in Gamma-Proteobacteria’, Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics, Argonne, IL.
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (April 2004) ‘Comparative Study of Structural Non-Coding RNAs’, Purdue University Undergraduate Research Day, West Lafayette, IN.

    Teaching:
  • Winter 2008: BIOINF / BENG / BIMM / CHEM / CSE 184 ‘Computational Molecular Biology’, University of California, San Diego.
  • Fall 2007: BIOINF I / PHARM 201 ‘Biological Data Representation and Analysis’, University of California, San Diego.
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    Honors:
    • 2009 NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes, China Awardee. Peking University People's Hospital.
    • 2008 Pfizer Global Research and Development Summer Internship Program Participant.
    • 2005 Purdue Biological Sciences Honors Program Completion.
    • 2005 Fall Purdue DURI Program Participant.
    • 2005 Summer Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Internship.
    • 2004 Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, Honorable Mention, Computing Research Association.
    • 2004 Purdue Computer Science Lockheed Martin Scholar Award.
    • 2004 Purdue School of Science Semester Honors, Dean’s List.
    • 2003 Purdue School of Science Semester Honors, Dean’s List.
    • 2002 Purdue School of Science Semester Honors, Dean’s List.
    • 2002 Wisconsin-Indiana-Purdue Madrid Study Abroad Program Participant.
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    Speaking Languages: English(native), Russian(native), Spanish(fluent) and Mandarin Chinese.

    Professional Experience:
    • 2006-0000 Graduate Researcher, Bioengineering Deptartment at UCSD, Burnham Institute, San Diego, CA.
    • 2009-2009 Summer Intern, Dept. of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking Univ. People's Hospital, Beijing, China.
    • 2008-2008 Summer Intern, Structural and Computational Biology, Pfizer Research and Development, La Jolla, CA.
    • 2004-2006 Research Assistant, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Dept. of Biol. Sci. at Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN.
    • 2003-2005 Software Engineer, Delphi Delco, West Lafayette, IN.
    Expertise:
    • Applications: Mathematica, Matlab, R, SAS, Apache, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, Cpanel, Eclipse, BLAST, Pipeline Pilot, NCBI E-Utilities, UCSC Genome Browser & Tools, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Basic, Magento, Mfold, QRNA, Visio.
    • Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual C++, C#, R, Assembler (MIPS, Sun SPARC), Perl, Python, Java, JSP, JDBC, JavaScript, VB, PL/SQL, PHP, HTML, XML, UNIX Shell Scripts.
    • Operating Systems: MS Windows, Apple OS X, Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, ...), Android/Chrome OS, Apple iOS.
    • Experimental Techniques: Agilent microarray RNA prep, Agilent & Affymetrix microarray statistical analysis, next-gen sequencing data analysis, (agarose gel and di-)electrophoresis, electron microscopy (manual, automated, visual data analysis), on-chip nucleic acid testing, PCR, DNA/RNA/protein purification, stem cell differentiation, cell culture, molecular cloning, restriction, ligation, transfection, sonication.
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