design and discovery of methods to slow the aging process
caloric restriction
neural stem cell aging
regenerative medicine applied to the CNS
systems biology of aging
Papers
CS 698 Research Summer-Fall 2006 -- "Design and Analysis of an Algorithm using Shared Neighbors for Edge Classification in Noisy Random Geometric Graphs" pdf
Derek M. Drake, Henry S. Baird, "Distinguishing Mathematics Notation from English Text using Computational Geometry",
Proc., IAPR 8th Int'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005), Seoul, Korea, August 31 -- September 1, 2005. pdf
Reports
BIOL 620 Advanced Eukaryotic Biology, Spring 2008 -- "Cordon-bleu: a review of the newest actin nucleator" pdf
BIOL 538 Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neurobiology, Spring 2008 -- "Mitochondria, Parkinson's Disease, and Brain aging", not available online yet
CS 397 Bioinformatics: Issues and Algorithms, Spring 2005 -- "Biocomputational Search Strategy to Identify A-to-I Edited Genes" pdf
Posters
"A bioinformatics approach to identify recoding events of A-to-I RNA editing" pdf
Presentations
BIOL 595 Molecular Neural Development Research, Summer 2008 -- not available online yet
CS 590G Analysis of Biochemical Networks, Fall 2007 -- "Human Aging" pdf
CS 590B Protein Bioinformatics, Spring 2006 -- "Protein Localization Prediction using k-NN Algorithm" pdf
CS 397 Bioinformatics: Issues and Algorithms, Spring 2005 -- "RNA secondary structure and graph theory: implications for RNA design" pdf
"Distinguishing mathematics from English text using Computational Geometry" pdf