Assistant Information Technology

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EducationM.S., Biology, December ****University of California, San DiegoB.S., Biochemistry and Cell Biology, June 2011University of California, San DiegoB.S., Computer Science, June 2011University of California, San Diego

ExperienceGraduate Research Assistant,, Sept 2011 - PresentPoison and kill corn.Wrote the Maize Protein Atlas.Intern,,, Summer 2012Genelist storage system and enrichment score computation engine.Developed a RESTful API to for genelists.Parallelized enrichment score calculations for statistical tests.Intern,,, Summer 2011Maize De Novo Assembly and Annotation in the CloudExperimented with de novo assembly using three assemblers.Assemblies were run using a resources on Amazon Web Services.Determined the best assembler and evaulated AWS pricing.Undergraduate Research Assistant,, Sept 2010 - Jun 2011Developed methods and software to run mass scale comparisons of known transport protein families by creating an in-house distributed system.Intern, Calit2 Summer Scholarship,, Summer 2009Developed a COVISE plugin for the Tiled Display Wall and Cave Automatic Virtual Enviroment using OpenSceneGraph to display simulation results in real time.Undergraduate Research Assistant,, Sept 2008 - Oct 2010In silico discovery of small molecule inhibitors of influenza hemagglutinin using computer aided drug discovery.Analysis of molecular dynamics simulations on multiple subtypes of hemagglutinin.Intern,,, Summer 2008Discovery of small molecule inhibitors of H5N1Conducted molecular docking and virtual screening experiments to find a small molecule inhibitor for influenza H5N1 subtype in Beijing, China.Undergraduate Research Assistant, Sept 2007 - Mar 2008Optimization of cellular growth protocol of Organ of Corti cells.

PublicationsNewhouse, E.I., D. Xu, P.R.L. Markwick, H.C. Pao, K.J. Wu, R.E. Amaro, M. Alam, J.A. McCammon, P.W.Arzberger, W.W. Li. Mechanism of Glycan Receptor Recognition and Specificity Switch for Avian, Swine and Human Adapted Influenza Virus Hemagglutinins: A Molecular Dynamics Perspective. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131 (47), pp 174**-*****. 10.1021/ja904052q.

TeachingBiology

BIBC 103. Biochemical Techniques

Lara Soowal. Spring 2012

BICD 100. Genetics

. Winter 2011

BILD 10. Fundamental Concepts of Biology

Par Towb. Winter 2008

BILD 3. Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

. Spring 2010Computer Science

CSE 3. Fluency in Information Technology

Gary Gillespie. Winter 2010, Spring 2010

CSE 5A. Introduction to Programming

Gary Gillespie. Spring 2010; . Summer 2010

. Basic Data Structures and Object-Oriented Design

Gary Gillespie. Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer 2009, Winter 2010

CSE 15L. Software Tools and Techniques Laboratory

. Fall 2010

Coursework. Parallel Computing. BGGN 216. Graduate Biostatistics. . Plant Postgenomics & Systems Biology. . Structural Bioinformatics. . Advanced Topics in Computational Molecular Biology . Molecular Sequence Analysis. . Biological Data Analysis. CSE 184. Computational Molecular Biology. )BENG 183. Applied Genomic Technologies. InterestsRubik s Cubing. Top 100 in America in 2006 and 2007.Vice President, Rubik s Cube Club at UCSD, 2008 - 2010PhotographyStaff Photographer, (Campus Newspaper), 2009 - 2011Photographer for the largest student publication on campus. Photographed various events and submitted photos for publication.Photographer and Owner, Kevin Wu PhotographyFreelance wedding, portrait, and event photographer.

Trust me, everything will be ok.

Kevin Wu 2012

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