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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 related 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, CPCB Journal Club.
Summer 2009: Scientific Ethics
Fall 2009: Macromolecular Structure and Function, Computational Structural Biology
Spring 2010: Algorithms for Computational Structural Biology, Journal Club
Fall 2010: Teaching Assistant for Computational Structural Biology, CPCB Journal Club
Fall 2011: Finite Element Analysis
Spring 2012: High-Throughput Genomic Data Analysis

Affiliations

International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB)
Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group (WPLUG)
Pittsburgh Python User Group (PGHPython)
Biophysical Society

Keith M. Callenberg

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

I grew up in Marin County, California, 20 minutes north of San Francisco. I am in my 4th year working towards a 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. Callenberg, K.M., Choudhary, O.P., De Forest, G., Gohara, D., Baker, N., Grabe, M. (2010). APBSmem: A graphical interface for electrostatics calculations at the membrane. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12722. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012722

3. Callenberg, K.M., Latorraca, N.R., Grabe, M. (2011). Membrane shape optimization for examining the energetics of transmembrane protein insertion, submitted.

Projects

APBSmem is a graphical interface for performing electrostatics calculations on membrane proteins and other biomolecules in the membrane.

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

Outside work

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