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Jinze Liu, Ph.D.
Director
Professor, Department of Biostatistics
liuj15@vcu.edu
Expertise: Methodological and applied research expertise in computational biology, machine learning and databases
Katarzyna Tyc, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
tyck@vcu.edu
Expertise: Customized NGS data processing workflows, multi-level data integration, germline and somatic variant calling, microbiome data analysis, molecular biology and translational bioinformatics
Amy Olex, Ph.D.
Senior Bioinformatics specialist, Wright Center
alolex@vcu.edu
Expertise: NGS data analysis and pipeline development, biomedical natural language processing and machine learning
Xufeng Qu, MS
Bioinformatics specialist
qux2@vcu.edu
Expertise: NGS data analysis, especially single-cell transcriptomics and single-cell spatial omics data analyses, machine learning
Christiane Carter, MS
Senior Bioinformatics Analyst
morecockcm@vcu.edu
Expertise: NGS data analysis, genomic data mining, multivariate data analysis, and data visualization
Mikail Bala, MS
Bioinformatician
balami@vcu.edu
Expertise: NGS data quality control and data analysis, pipeline automation

Joaquin Reyna, Ph.D.
Research scientist
reynaj@vcu.edu
Expertise: Methodological and applied research in bioinformatics, with a focus on chromatin conformation, transcription factor binding, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Currently expanding into spatial biology and lipidomics. Extensive experience in database and web development for bioinformatics applications. Strong background in machine learning.