Epernicus: Ryan G Christensen, B.Sc.

Ryan G Christensen, B.Sc.

Position:
Graduate Student - Ph.D.

Biology and Biomedical Sciences

Genetics

Washington University in St. Louis (Saint Louis, MO)
Advisor:
Gary D Stormo
Degrees:

B.Sc., Bioinformatics and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)
Past Advisors:

Keith A Crandall (as Undergraduate Student)

David A McClellan (as Undergraduate Student)
Research:
Honors:
2006 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship honorable mention

Communities:

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Ryan Christensen's Publications (7)

Analysis of homeodomain specificities allows the family-wide prediction of preferred recognition sites.
Noyes MB, Christensen RG, Wakabayashi A, Stormo GD, Brodsky MH, Wolfe SA

Cell. 2008 Jun 27;133(7):1277-89
Genome wide screens in yeast to identify potential binding sites and target genes of DNA-binding proteins.
Zeng J, Yan J, Wang T, Mosbrook-Davis D, Dolan KT, Christensen R, Stormo GD, Haussler D, Lathrop RH, Brachmann RK, Burgess SM

Nucleic acids research. 2008 Jan;36(1):e8
The immunogenetics of smallpox vaccination.
Stanley SL, Frey SE, Taillon-Miller P, Guo J, Miller RD, Koboldt DC, Elashoff M, Christensen R, Saccone NL, Belshe RB

The Journal of infectious diseases. 2007 Jul 15;196(2):212-9
Comparing phylogenetic codivergence between polyomaviruses and their hosts.
Pérez-Losada M, Christensen RG, McClellan DA, Adams BJ, Viscidi RP, Demma JC, Crandall KA

Journal of virology. 2006 Jun;80(12):5663-9
Phylogenomics and molecular evolution of polyomaviruses.
Crandall KA, Pérez-Losada M, Christensen RG, McClellan DA, Viscidi RP

Advances in experimental medicine and biology. 2006;577:46-59
Physicochemical evolution and molecular adaptation of the cetacean and artiodactyl cytochrome b proteins.
McClellan DA, Palfreyman EJ, Smith MJ, Moss JL, Christensen RG, Sailsbery JK

Molecular biology and evolution. 2005 Mar;22(3):437-55
Genetic codes as evolutionary filters: subtle differences in the structure of genetic codes result in significant differences in patterns of nucleotide substitution.
McClellan DA, Whiting DG, Christensen R, Sailsbery J

Journal of theoretical biology. 2004 Feb 21;226(4):393-400

Ryan Christensen's Posters and Presentations (1)

CDSParser: Streamlining the Creation and Organization of Large Protein Coding Data Sets (poster)
Vernon, H.J., R.G. Christensen, S. Woolley, M.D. Dyer, P.A Ringstrom, D. Almond, D.A. McClellan

Evolution 2004, Society of Systematic Biology & Society for the Study of Evolution; 06/2004

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