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Patricia Buendia
Visiting Assistant Professor |
234Cox Science Center, Dept. of Biology
1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33124 |
(305) 284-3523
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| Education and Professional Experience |
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- Ph.D. Computer Science, Florida International University, 2006
- M.S. Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 1995
- B.S. Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, Germany, 1995
- 1992-2001 Professional Experience in the Commercial Software Development Industry
- 2007, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Miami Biology Department
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| Areas of Focus |
| Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics, Genomics, Sequence Analysis |
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| Research Interests |
| My recent work has been in the areas of Bioinformatics and viral evolution. Bioinformatics is a highly interdisciplinary field and as such I am always looking forward to working on new collaborative projects with biology\biomedical researchers. I am currently working on a project that studies the evolution of viruses within a host to better understand the emergence of anti-viral therapy resistant mutations. Current and upcoming projects involve genome annotation and the study of transposon evolution. |
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| Teaching Interests |
| I enjoy teaching computer programming courses and I especially enjoy the challenge of teaching such courses to students who have never programmed before. My goal is to use the latest technology and instructional methodologies to create a better teaching and learning environment. The marriage of content and technology as is the case in animated PowerPoint lectures provides the teacher with a more effective way to transfer knowledge and information to the student. I am looking forward to teaching an introductory course in statistics and applying some of the teaching methods I have acquired in the past and develop new ones that will motivate and help students in the learning process and the understanding of the material. |
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| Five most recent publications |
- Buendia, P., Collins, T., and Narasimhan, G. (2007). The Role of Internal Node Sequences and the Molecular Clock in the Analysis of Serially-Sampled Data. To appear in International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
- Buendia, P. and Narasimhan, G. (2007). Sliding MinPD: Building evolutionary networks of serial samples via a recombination detection approach. Oxford Journal of Bioinformatics; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm413
- Buendia, P. and Narasimhan, G. (2007). Searching for Recombinant Donors in a Phylogenetic Network of Serial Samples. International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Atlanta, Georgia
- Buendia, P. and Narasimhan, G. (2006). Serial NetEvolve: A flexible utility for generating serially-sampled sequences along a tree or recombinant network. Bioinformatics 22 (18), pp. 2313-2314.
- Buendia, P., Collins, T., and Narasimhan, G. (2006). Reconstructing Ancestor-Descendant Lineages from Serially-Sampled Data: A Comparison Study. International Conference on Computational Science (IWBRA), Reading, UK. 807-814
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