This is the research lab home page of Vincent VanBuren, PhD. Our research focus is (1) inference of biological networks from multiple sources of data, and (2) modeling the emergent behavior of stochastic biological systems.
Dr. VanBuren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine (SBTM), College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center. Dr. VanBuren was formerly the Director of the SBTM Microarray Laboratory, and is a member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute.
For more about our research interests, click on a link on the right, or see Dr. VanBuren's profile page. If you have questions about this page, our research program, or about joining our graduate program, please contact Dr. VanBuren by email.
Summer research opportunities :
Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Medical Student Summer Research Program
October 2009: Jupiter, D., Chen, H., and VanBuren, V. StarNet 2: a web-based tool for accelerating discovery of gene regulatory networks using microarray co-expression data.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10:332 [Abstract] [PDF] (*classified as 'Highly Accessed' by BMC Bioinformatics) [Link to StarNet2]
March 2008: Jupiter, D.C. and VanBuren, V. A Visual Data Mining Tool that Facilitates Reconstruction of Transcription Regulatory Networks.
PLoS ONE 3(3): e1717 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001717 [Link to Article] [Link to StarNet]
March 2008: Huang, H.C., Jupiter, D., Qiu M., Briggs, J.M., VanBuren, V. Cluster analysis of hydration waters around the active sites of bacterial alanine racemase using a 2-ns MD simulation.
Biopolymers 89(3) 210-219 (* Featured on the journal cover) . [PDF]