Jacquelyn S. Fetrow

Principal Investigator

Departments of Physics and Computer Science

Office:

104C Reynolda Hall (Dean's Office)
Phone: +1 (336) 758-5312
Full contact information can be found here.

Teaching Interests:

My teaching interests include Bioinformatics, Physics of Biological Macromolecules, Computational Biophysics Laboratory, General Physics, Research Topics in Structural and Computational Biophysics and Biophysics Journal Club.

For course web pages, syllabi, and other information, see Teaching.

Things that I like to do:

Playing with my dogs; gardening; cooking; jogging; yoga; volleyball; skiing; football; NASCAR racing.

Professional Credentials:

• BS, Albright College
• PhD, Penn State University
• Postdoctoral positions:
  • University of Rochester Medical School
  • The Whitehead Instititue for Biomedical Research (MIT)
• Professional positions:
  • University at Albany, SUNY
  • The Scripps Research Institute
  • GeneFormatics, Inc.
  • Wake Forest University

Before we came to Wake Forest, my husband and I took six months and traveled the United States. See the log and pictures from this trip here.

Outward Bound 2006:

Team Tireless — Adrian, Chris, Hailie Hampton, Jenny, Jonathan, Kelley, Nathan, Stephen, Tom, Jacque, Kelly and Ray.

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Stacy (Knutson) Howerton

Research Associate

Office:

243 Manchester Hall (Computer Science)

Phone:

+1 (336) 758-3372

Things I like to do:

Spending time with my family, travel with my family, painting, drawing (see my website http://www.sketches4you.com/), running 5K's and 10K's, gardening, playing with my dogs and cats.

Professional credentials:

• BSc, Simon Fraser University
• Professional positions:
  • StressGen
  • GeneFormatics, Inc.
  • Wake Forest University

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Amy Olex

Bioinformatics Specialist

Office:

243 Manchester Hall (Computer Science)

Phone:

+1 (336) 758-3372

Things I like to do:

Spending time with my husband and daughter, traveling with my family, photography, hiking, white water rafting, karate, playing the violin and piano.

Professional credentials:

• BS 2005, with honors (Computer Science) Virginia Commonwealth University
• MS 2007, with honors (Computer Science with Certificate in Structural and Computational Biophysics) Wake Forest University
  2007 recipient of The Gordon A. Melson Outstanding Master’s Student Award
• Professional positions:
  • Wake Forest University

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Current Students

Satria Sajuthi Graduate Student (MS, Computer Science)

Mary Beth Ward Undergraduate Student (BS, Biology) Awarded a Wake Forest Summer Research Fellowship (2008)

Cam Mateus Undergraduate Student (BS, Chemistry)

Matthew Gottbrecht Undergraduate Student (BA, Physics)

Bo-Shan Xiang Undergraduate Student (BS, Biology and BA, Philosophy double major)

Brandon Turner Undergraduate Student

Adam Wojcik Undergraduate Student

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Fetrow Group Alumni

Domonique Bulls NC A&T University Undergraduate Student (BS, Biology)

Dominique Collins NC A&T University Undergraduate Student (BA, Mathematics)

Graham Lopez MS 2008 (Computer Science) "A computational method to explore the time evolution of protein cavities"

Michael Murray PhD 2008 (Biochemistry)

Amy Olex MS 2007 (Computer Science with Certificate in Structural and Computational Biophysics) "Development of novel microarray analysis tools and application to a dendritic cell maturation time course experiment"

Audra Lemley BA 2007 (Chemistry) Honors thesis: "Analysis of long range interactions in eglin c using molecular dynamics simulations"

Shane Ahlers BS 2007 (Biology) "Analysis of kinase active sites using DASP and PASSS"

Ashley Spooner BA 2007 (Philosophy/Communication)

Edward Pryor MS 2006 (Computer Science) "PASSS: Protein Active Site Structure Search"

Huan Tan MS 2006 (Computer Science) "Active site profile scoring incorporating amino acid biophysical properties"

Ryan Huff MS 2005 (Computer Science) "DASP: Active site profiling for identification of functional sites in protein sequences and structures"

Michael Hicks BS 2005 (Biology) Honors thesis: "Molecular modeling of mammalian carboxylesterases provides insight into CPT-11 activation" Winner of a Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award, The Protein Society Meeting, 2005

Sarah Yocum BA 2005 (Biology) "Study of enolase, crotonase, and dehalogenase active sites using active site profiling"

Mick Knaggs Post Doctoral Research Associate

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