Associate Professor Mik Black
| Position | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Department | Department of Biochemistry |
| Qualifications | BSc (Hons) PhD |
| Research summary | Bioinformatics |
| Teaching | Associate Professor Black teaches a microarray module in BIOC 354 Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, a statistics module in BIOC 452 Metabolism and Regulation, and a course (STAT 435 Data Analysis for Bioinformatics ) on the use of statistical and bioinformatic methods for the analysis of data from microarray and second generation sequencing experiments. |
Research
Associate Professor Black's research interests include the analysis of data from gene expression microarray experiments, Bayesian statistical methods, and statistical computing.
Publications
Mann, M. B., Black, M. A., Jones, D. J., Ward, J. M., Yew, C. C. K., Newberg, J. Y., … Jenkins, N. A. (2015). Transposon mutagenesis identifies genetic drivers of BrafV600E melanoma. Nature Genetics, 47(5), 486-495. doi: 10.1038/ng.3275
Nguyen, H. T., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2014). The CNVrd2 package: Measurement of copy number at complex loci using high-throughput sequencing data. Frontiers in Genetics, 5, 248. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00248
Cadzow, M., Boocock, J., Nguyen, H. T., Wilcox, P., Merriman, T. R., & Black, M. A. (2014). A bioinformatics workflow for detecting signatures of selection in genomic data. Frontiers in Genetics, 5, 293. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00293
Kenny, L. C., Black, M. A., Poston, L., Taylor, R., Myers, J. E., Baker, P. N., … North, R. A. (2014). Early pregnancy prediction of preeclampsia in nulliparous women, combining clinical risk and biomarkers: The Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints (SCOPE) international cohort study. Hypertension, 64(3), 644-652. doi: 10.1161/hypertensionaha.114.03578
Nagalla, S., Chou, J. W., Willingham, M. C., Ruiz, J., Vaughn, J. P., Dubey, P., … Black, M. A., & Miller, L. D. (2013). Interactions between immunity, proliferation and molecular subtype in breast cancer prognosis. Genome Biology, 14, R34. doi: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-4-r34
