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Email: kmc112@{pitt,cmu}.edu
Office: 242 Crawford Hall, University of Pittsburgh
Education: B.S. Computer Science, San Jose State University

Research

I am interested in how membrane proteins interact with the membrane and similar biophysical questions. I work with Dr. Michael Grabe in the Grabe lab.

Coursework

Fall 2008: Machine Learning, Comp. Structural Biology, Journal Club
Spring 2009: Computational Genomics, Cell and Systems Modeling, Laboratory Methods for Computational Biologists, Journal Club.
Summer 2009: Scientific Ethics
Fall 2009: Macromolecular Structure and Function, Computational Structural Biology
Spring 2010: Algorithms for Computational Structural Biology, Journal Club

Keith Callenberg

Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Student in Computational Biology

I grew up in Marin County, California, 20 minutes north of San Francisco. After studying for a year at Cal Poly Pomona and then a year at North Carolina State, I transferred to San Jose State University where I finished my degree in Computer Science with an emphasis in bioinformatics and a minor in math. I spent the summer of 2007 at Iowa State University researching microarray data analysis under Chris Tuggle. In 2008 I started working towards my Ph.D. in Computational Biology through a joint program between Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh. My primary goal is to someday have a positive impact in medicine and curing disease.

Publications

1. Couture, O., Callenberg, K., Koul, N., Pandit, S., Younes, J., Hu, Z-L., Dekkers, J., Reecy, J., Honavar, V., and Tuggle, C. (2009). ANEXdb: An Integrated Animal ANnotation and Microarray EXpression Database. Mammalian Genome. DOI 10.1007/s00335-009-9234-1

2. APBS Membrane Tool: A graphical interface for electrostatics calculations at the membrane. In preparation

Projects

At Iowa State I began work on a database for the storage and analysis of microarray data. ANEXdb is still in development but is now accepting experiments and data.

At San Jose State I worked with Dr. Sami Khuri on a database for the mapping of mutations related to beta thalassemia.

Outside work

Soccer, running, biking, backpacking, cooking, horticulture, art, music, and books.