Fetrow Research Group

People in the Group

 


   Current Members:


   Fetrow Group Alumni:

Jacquelyn FetrowJacquelyn 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 HowertonStacy (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 OlexAmy 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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