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Thomas L. Casavant, Ph.D.
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Professor
Biomedical Engineering
5316 Seamans Center
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Ph. (319) 335-5953
Fax. (319) 335-6028
tom-casavant@uiowa.edu
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Research Interests
- Computational Molecular Biology
- Computer architecture
- Genetics and Genomics
- Parallel Processing
- Distributed Computing
- Software tools
- Distributed scheduling
Education
- University of Iowa - B.S., 1982, Computer Science
- University of Iowa - M.S., 1983, Electrical Engineering
- University of Iowa - Ph.D., 1986, Electrical Engineering
Professional activities
- Member of Institue of Electrical and Electronical
Engineering Computer Society
- Member of Association for Computer Machinery
- Summer 1984 AT&T Bell Labs: MTS
- 1980 - 1986 Iowa Air National Guard: Sergeant
- 1986 - 1989 Purdue Univ., Assistant Professor
- 1993 - 1994 ETH-Zurith, Guest Professor
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.
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