Jian Ma

Address:
Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering
507A Engineering II, Mail Stop: CBSE/ITI
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High St
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Phone: (831) 459-5232
Fax: (831) 459-1809
Email: jianma at soe dot ucsc dot edu
WWW: http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~jianma/

About Me

I have been a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. David Haussler since Jan 2007. I received my Ph.D. degree (Dec 2006) in Computer Science from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, under the supervision of Prof. Webb Miller. Before coming to the United States in 2003, I graduated from Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

My Research

My general research interests include computational biology, comparative genomics, and algorithms design. Current work is focusing on the theory of ancestral genomic sequence reconstruction and its application to understanding human genetics and human evolution.

Selected Publications

Jian Ma, Aakrosh Ratan, Brian J. Raney, Bernard B. Suh, Webb Miller, and David Haussler. The infinite sites model of genome evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). (to appear)

Jian Ma, Aakrosh Ratan, Brian J. Raney, Bernard B. Suh, Louxin Zhang, Webb Miller, and David Haussler. DUPCAR: Reconstructing contiguous ancestral regions with duplications. Journal of Computational Biology. (to appear)

Rhesus Macaque Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome. Science, 13(316):222-234, 2007.

Jian Ma, Louxin Zhang, Bernard B. Suh, Brian J. Raney, Richard C. Burhans, W. James Kent, Mathieu Blanchette, David Haussler, and Webb Miller. Reconstructing contiguous regions of an ancestral genome. Genome Research. 2006 Dec; 16(12):1557-65. (Commented by Rocchi et al. Genome Res. 2006 16:1441-4)