Computational Biology

Biomolecular Modeling:
Anant Godbole: Mathematics and Statistics
Teresa Haynes:  Mathematics and Statistics
David Johnson: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Debra Knisley: Mathematics and Statistics
Jeff Knisley: Mathematics and Statistics
Dhirendra Kumar: Biological Sciences
Celia McIntosh: Biological Sciences
Chris Wallace: Information and Computer Science
Yue Zou: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Complex Networks and Systems Biology
Teresa Haynes:  Mathematics and Statistics
David Johnson: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Karl Joplin: Biological Sciences
Michele Joyner:  Mathematics and Statistics
Debra Knisley:  Mathematics and Statistics
Jeff Knisley:  Mathematics and Statistics
Dhirendra Kumar: Biological Sciences
Celia McIntosh: Biological Sciences
Edith Seier:  Mathematics and Statistics

Computational Neuroscience
Lee Glenn: Nursing
Jeff Knisley:  Mathematics and Statistics
Eric Sellers: Psychology


Recent Publications


Jin, J. Allison, B.Z., Sellers, E.W., Clemens, B., Horki, P., Wang, X., Neuper, C. (in press). Adaptive P300 based control system. Journal of Neural Engineering

Frye, J.E., Hauser, C.K., Townsend, G., Sellers, E.W. (in press). Suppressing flashes of items surrounding targets during calibration of a P300-Based Brain-Computer Interface improves performance. Journal of Neural Engineering

Lakey, C.E., Berry, D.R., Sellers, E.W. (in press). Manipulating attention via mindfulness induction improves P300-based brain-computer interface performance. Journal of Neural Engineering.

Gates, N.A., Hauser, C.K., Sellers, E.W. (in press) A Longitudinal Study of P300 Brain-Computer Interface and Progression of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Proceedings of HCI International 2011.

Vaughan, T.M., Sellers, E.W. (in press). Clinical application of the P300 BCI. Oxford University Press.

Sellers, E.W., Arbel, Y., Donchin, E. (in press). P300 event-related potentials and related activity in the EEG. Oxford University Press.

Jin, J., Allison, B.Z., Sellers, E.W., Clemens, B., Horki, P., Wang, X., Neuper, C. (2011). Optimized P300 stimulus presentation pattern for an EEG-based control system. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 49(2), 181-191.

Ryan, D.B., Frye, G.E., Townsend, G., Berry, D.R., Mesa-G., S., Gates, N.A., Sellers, E.W. (2011). Predictive spelling with a P300-based brain-computer interface: Increasing the rate of communication. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 27(1), 69-84.

Jeff Knisley and Debra Knisley ,  Predicting Protein-Protein Interactions Using Graphical Invariants and a Neural Network, Journal of Computational Biology and Chemistry (to appear)

Anant Godbole, Debra Knisley and Rick Norwood , On properties of the alpha-overlap graph, Cong. Num., Vol 204, pp 161-172, 2010.

Denise Koessler, Debra Knisley, Jeff Knisley and Teresa Haynes, A Predictive Model for Secondary RNA Structure using graph theory and a neural network, BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11 (Suppl 6):S21, Oct.2010.

Debra Knisley, Yared Nigussie and Attila Por, On the chromatic number of alpha-overlap graphs, Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Computational Computing, Vol.73, -13, 2010.

Sellers, E.W., Vaughan, T.M., Wolpaw, J.R. (2010). A brain-computer interface for long-term independent home use. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 11(5), 449-455.

Sanocki, T., Sellers, E., Mittelstadt, J., Sulman, N. (2010). How high is visual short term memory capacity for object layout? Attention, Perception, & Psychopsysics, 72(4), 1097-1109. PMID: 20436203

Townsend, G., LaPallo, B.K., Boulay, C., Krusienski, D.J., Frye, G.E., Hauser, C.K., Schwartz, N.E., Vaughan, T.M., Wolpaw, J.R., Sellers, E.W. (2010). A novel P300-based brain-computer interface stimulus presentation paradigm: moving beyond rows and columns. Clinical Neurophysiology, 121, 1109-1120. PMID: 20347387; PMCID: PMC2879474; NIHMSID: 192939

Sellers, E.W., McFarland, D.J., Vaughan, T.M., Wolpaw, J.R. (2010). The Wadsworth Noninvasive brain-computer interface research program. In B. Graimann, G. Pfurtscheller (Eds.), Brain-Computer Interfaces. The Frontiers Collection. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp 97-111.

Shell SM, Li Z, Shkriabai N, Kvaratskhelia M, Brosey C, Serrano MA, Chazin WJ, Musich PR, and Zou Y (2009) Checkpoint Kinase ATR Promotes Nucleotide Excision Repair of UV-induced DNA Damage via Physical Interaction with XPA. J. Biol. Chem. 284, 24213-24222.

Brown KL, Roginskaya M, Zou Y, Altamirano A, Basu AK, and Stone MP (2009) The cis-(5R,6S)-Thymine Glycol Lesion is an Efficient Substrate for the Human NER proteins XPA and XPC/HR23B Nucleic Acids Res. 2009

Guger, C., Daban, S., Sellers, E., Holzner, C., Krausz, G., Carabalona, R., Gramatica, F, Gunter Edlinger (2009). How many people are able to control a P300-based brain-computer interface (BCI)? Neuroscience Letters, 462, 94-98. PMID: 19545601

Klobassa, D.S., Vaughan, T.M., Brunner, P., Schwartz, N.E., Wolpaw, J.R., Neuper, C., Sellers E.W. (2009). Toward a high-throughput auditory P300-based brain-computer interface.Clinical Neurophysiology, 120, 1252-1261. PMID: 19574091; PMCID: PMC2729552

 Knisley, D., E. Seier, D. Lamb. D.K. Owens, and C.A. McIntosh. 2009.  A Graph-Theoretic Model Based on Primary and Predicted Secondary Structures Reveals Functional Specificity in a Set of Plant Secondary Product UDP-Glucosyltransferases.    Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, and Chemoinformatics, W. Logong, M. Doble, Z. Sun, and J. Malone (eds), pp 65-72. (Peer-reviewed, Invited)

 Owens, D.K. and C.A. McIntosh.  2009. Identification, Recombinant Expression, and Biochemical Characterization of a Flavonol 3-O-Glucosyltransferase Clone from Citrus paradisi.  Phytochemistry 70:1382-1391.