Derek Drake dmdrake@purdue.edu M.S. Biological Sciences, Purdue University, 12/2008 M.S. Computer Science, Purdue University, 5/2007 B.S. Computer Science, Lehigh University, 5/2005 CV pdf

Research interests

• molecular mechanisms of aging and longevity
• brain aging
• 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

• 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

• 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

• "A bioinformatics approach to identify recoding events of A-to-I RNA editing" pdf

• 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