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Stanislav Luban Stanislav Luban
Graduate Student, UCSD and Burnham Institute

Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program
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, Proteomics, Gene Expression Analysis, Stem Cell Differentiation, Cardiogenesis, Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue-Level Aging, Protein Function Prediction, Small RNAs and RNA Interference.
  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
Ph.D Advisor:
Shankar Subramaniam
Education: B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Genetic Biology, Specializing in Computational Biology, Purdue University, IN, 2005.
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Publications:
  • 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.
  • S. Luban and D. Kihara. (2007) ‘Comparative genomics of small RNAs in bacterial genomes’, Omics, 11:58-73.
  • 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.
  • 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:
  • 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 Departure 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:
    Fall 2007: Bioinformatics I / Pharm201 ‘Biological Data Representation and Analysis’, University of California, San Diego.
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    Honors:
    • 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.

    Professional Experience:
    • 2006-0000 Graduate Researcher, Bioengineering Deptartment at UCSD, Burnham Institute, San Diego, CA.
    • 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:
    • Wet Lab Protocols: Stem Cell Differentiation, Cell Culture, Molecular Cloning, PCR, DNA/RNA/Protein Purification, Restriction, Ligation, Infection, Transfection, Sequencing, Electrophoresis, Sonication, Electron Microscopy.
    • Applications: Mathematica, Matlab, Apache, MySQL, Eclipse, BLAST, NCBI E-Utilities, UCSC Genome Browser & Tools, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Basic, Mfold, QRNA, PFP, 3D-Surfer, Visio.
    • Programming Languages: C, C++, Visual C++, C#, Assembler (MIPS, Sun SPARC), Perl, Python, Java, JSP, JDBC, JavaScript, VB, PL/SQL, XML, HTML, UNIX Shell Scripts.
    • Operating Systems: DOS/Windows 98/NT/2000/XP, UNIX, Linux, Solaris.
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