Baylor College of Medicine

Blaz Zupan, Ph.D.

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Blaz Zupan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Email

bzupan@gmail.com

Positions

Assistant Professor: Mol. & Human Gen./Shaulsky
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

BSc from University of Ljubljana: 12/1991 - Ljubljana, Ljubljana Slovenia; Electrical Engineering

MSc from University of Houston: 12/1993 - Houston, Texas United States; Computer Science

PhD from University of Ljubljana: 06/1997 - Ljubljana, Ljubljana Slovenia; Computer Science

Professional Interests

Data Mining
Bioinformatics
Software development

Websites

VIICTR Publications List

Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting.

An interactive search and exploration tool for the BCM Dictyostelium gene expression database.

Intelligent assistant for qualitative epistasis analysis and inference of genetic networks.

Selected Publications

Miranda ER, Zhuchenko O, Toplak M, Santhanam B, Zupan B, Kuspa A, Shaulsky G "ABC transporters in Dictyostelium discoideum development." PLoS One. 2013 Aug 14;8(8) Pubmed PMID: 23967067
Zitnik M, Janjic V, Larminie C, Zupan B, Przulj N "Discovering disease-disease associations by fusing systems-level molecular data." Sci Rep.. 2013 15;(3):3203. Pubmed PMID: 24232732
Mendes I, Franco-Duarte R, Umek L, Fonseca E, Drumonde-Neves J, Dequin S, Zupan B, Schuller D "Computational models for prediction of yeast strain potential for winemaking from phenotypic profiles." PLoS One. 2013 Jul 16;8(7):e66523. Pubmed PMID: 23874393
Nasser W, Santhanam B, Miranda ER, Parikh A, Juneja K, Rot G, Dinh C, Chen R, Zupan B, Shaulsky G, Kuspa A "Bacterial discrimination by dictyostelid amoebae reveals the complexity of ancient interspecies interactions." Curr Biol. 2013 May 20;23(10):862-72. Pubmed PMID: 23664307

Miranda ER, Rot G, Toplak M, Santhanam B, Curk T, Shaulsky G, Zupan B "Transcriptional profiling of Dictyostelium with RNA sequencing." Methods Mol Biol. 2013;(983):139-71. Pubmed PMID: 23494306

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Projects

Functional Genomics of Dictyostelium: NIH/NICHD (06/2013 - 04/2017); Program Project; Adam Kuspa PI / Project Leader; Other PIs - Gad Shaulsky, Richard Sucgang, Blaz Zupan. Goals: This Program Project is aimed at understanding the mechanisms that control growth and multicellular development in Dictyostelium.

Funding

Functional genomics of Dictyostelium - #P01 HD039691: $854,874.00 (06/19/2013 - 04/30/2017); Program Project; Adam Kuspa PI / Project Leader; Other PIs - Gad Shaulsky, Richard Sucgang, Blaz Zupan. Goals: This Program Project is aimed at understanding the mechanisms that control growth and multicellular development in Dictyostelium.