Thomas L. Casavant

Joined the College of Engineering: 1989 

Education: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1986 
M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1983 
B.S., C.S., University of Iowa, 1982 

Special Fields of Knowledge: Bioinformatics, computational biology, genome sequence analysis, software tools for human disease mutation identification, computer architecture; parallel processing; distributed computing; software engineering.. 

Present Research Interests:Bioinformatics, computational biology, genome sequence analysis, software tools for human disease mutation identification, computer architecture; parallel processing; distributed computing; software engineering.

Selected Publications:

• Braun, T., Scheetz, T., Webster, G., Clark, A., Stone, E., Sheffield, V., and Casavant, T., "Identifying Candidate Disease Genes with High-Performance Computing, " Supercomputing, Vol. 26, pp. 7-24, 2003.
• Tuggle, C.K., Gree, J.A., ... Casavant, T.L., et. al., "EST-Based Gene Discovery in Pig: Virtual Expression Patterns and Comparative Mapping to Human." Mammalian Genome, Vol. 14, pp. 565-579, 2003.
• Chiang, A.P., Nishimura, D., ... Casavant, T., et. al., "Comparative Genomic Analysis Identifies an ADP=Ribosylation Factor-like Gene as the Cause of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS3)," Am. J. Hum. Genet., Vol. 75, pp. 475-484, 2004.
• Stone, E.M., Braun, T.A., Russell, S.R., Kuehn, M., Lotery, A.J., Moor, P.A., Eastman, C.G., Casavant, T.L., and Sheffield. V.C., "Missense Varation in the Fibulin 5 Gene and Age-Related Macular Degeneration," New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 351, pp. 346-353, 2004.
• Hackett, J.D., Scheetz, T.E., Yoon, H.S., Soares, M.B., Bonaldo. M.F., Casavant, T.L., and Bhattacharya, D., "Insights in to a Dinoflagellate Genome Through Expressed SEquence Tag Analysis," BMC Genomics, Vol. 6(1), p. 80, May 29, 2005.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers Computer Society; Association for Computer Machinery.