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Address:
Christian J. Stoeckert, Jr., Ph.D.
Research Professor, Dept. of Genetics
Penn Center for Bioinformatics
Email: stoeckrt@pcbi.upenn.edu
Tel: +1 (215) 573-4409
FAX: +1 (215) 573-3111 FAX

Curriculum vitae

Recent Presentations

"Annotation-based meta-analysis of microarray experiments" (ppt) Feb 26, 2008, Yale Biostatistics Seminar Series.
"Predicting functions in Plasmodium and other Apicomplexa" (pdf) Dec. 10, 2007. Graduate Seminars in parasitology (U. Penn School of Veterinary Medicine).
"Computational modeling of malarial parasite protein interactions reveals function on a genome-wide scale" (ppt) Oct. 18, 2006 PICASso "Successes of Computational Biology", Princeton.
"Standards and the GUS database system for funtional genomics" (ppt) March 7, 2006 Distinguished Lecture ITC-IRST, Trento, Italy.
"Cracking the promoter code: Identifying regulatory modules for tissue-specific transcripts" (ppt) Nov. 15, 2005 University of Nebraska Medical Center
"Computational Analysis of Tissue Specificity: Decoding Promoters" (ppt) Nov. 17, 2004 Department of Physiology Seminar Series, University of Kentucky
"GUS: A Functional Genomics Data Management System" (ppt) ASM Conference on Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics Approaches to Infectious Disease Research October 8, 2004 Portland, Oregon.
"Annotating microarray data with the MGED Ontology." (ppt) NCI Center for Bioinformatics. April 15, 2004, Bethesda, MD.
"RADical microarray data: standards, databases, and analyses." (ppt) Yale Microarray Data Analysis Workshop. Dec. 5, 2003. New Haven, CT.
Lectures for the Greater Philadelphia Bioinformatic Alliance Workshop. "Development and differentiation: The Princeton stem cell data set." and "Differential expression and false discovery rate." Oct. 13-15, 2003. Philadelphia, PA.
"Generating useful information in toxicogenomics: Focused efforts: Microarray standards." (ppt)The National Academies. Feb 6, 2003. Washington D.C.
"The MGED Ontology: A framework for describing functional genomics experiments." (ppt) Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics, 17th to 20th November, 2002, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
"Sharing Microarray Knowledge" (ppt) Chips to Hits. Oct. 28, 2002. Philadelphia, PA
"Integrated Data Systems for Genomic Analysis" (ppt) Genomics and Bioinformatics for the Advancement of Clinical Sciences, Oct. 14, 2002, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA

Links

CBIL: Computational Biology and Informatics Laboratory (My lab).
PCBI: Penn Center for Bioinformatics (My primary affiliation).
Genetics Department (My home department).
MGED: Microarray Gene Expression Data Society
MGED Ontologies Working Group
Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (was Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology)
Standards and Ontologies for Functional Genomics

Personal Stuff

View from our back yard Our new house (see pic bottom right).
My wife, Nancy Hirschmann, is now a tenured Full Professor in the Dept. of Political Science at Penn. Her book, The Subject of Liberty has been awarded the 2004 Victoria Schuck prize for the best book published on women and politics.
Some pictures from a vacation in Bermuda.(1999)
We adopted two kittens, Xena and Zoe, from the Pennsylvania SPCA. (1997)

Chris Stoeckert (stoeckrt@pcbi.upenn.edu)