1. About Me Matt Danzi Research Mentors – Vance Lemmon and John Bixby
Third year Ph.D. candidate
B.S. from UNC Chapel Hill in Biology with minors in Computer Science and Chemistry
Research Mentors – Vance Lemmon and John Bixby
Departments: Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and Department of Neurological Surgery
Research interest: axon regeneration
Computational Mentor – Stefan Wuchty
Department of Computer Science
Research interest: biological network modelling and prediction

2. Identifying the Regulators in RNA-Seq Data
46,078 Genes
Log2(Fold Change) of Gene Expression 4 2 -2 -4 95
Transcription Factors
Yellow = gene regulated by transcription factor
Blue = gene not regulated by transcription factor

3. What I hope to accomplish by April
Written and debugged the two planned approaches
Applied these two approaches to four data sets
Ideally, see a large degree of similarity between the results from each of the four data sets