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Roman Volodymyr Briskine
Roman Briskine

About

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Machine learning
  • Plant genomics
  • Population genetics
  • Genome-wide association studies
  • Functional networks
  • Epigenetics

Education

  • 12/2013 (expected), Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Advisor: Chad L. Myers
  • 12/2009, M.S. in Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. Advisor: Arindam Banerjee
  • 12/1999, B.A. in Management Information Systems, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA. Advisors: Leslie K. Duclos Wilson and Shashidhar Kaparthi

Publications

  • Paape T, Bataillon T, Zhou P, Kono T, Briskine R, Young ND, Tiffin P. Selection, genome wide fitness effects, and evolutionary rates in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Molecular Ecology. In press.
  • Sekhon RS, Briskine R, Hirsch CN, Myers CL, Springer NM, Buell CR, de Leon N, Kaeppler SM. Maize Gene Atlas Developed by RNA Sequencing and Comparative Evaluation of Transcriptomes Based on RNA Sequencing and Microarrays. PLoS ONE. 2013;8(4):e61005.
  • Yoder JB, Briskine R, Mudge J, Farmer A, Paape T, Steele K, Weiblen GD, Bharti AK, Zhou P, May GD, Young ND, Tiffin P. Phylogenetic signal variation in the genomes of genus Medicago (Fabaceae). Systematic Biology. 2013;doi:10.1093/sysbio/syt009
  • Makarevitch I, Eichten S, Briskine R, Waters AJ, Danilevskaya ON, Meeley RB, Myers CL, Vaughn MW, Springer NM. Genomic Distribution of Maize Facultative Heterochromatin Marked by Trimethylation of H3K27. Plant Cell. 2013; tpc.112.106427.
  • Epstein B, Branca A, Mudge J, Bharti AK, Briskine R, Farmer AD, Sugawara M, Young ND, Sadowsky MJ, Tiffin P. Population genomics of the facultatively mutualistic bacteria Sinorhizobium meliloti and S. medicae. PLoS Genet. 2012;8(8):e1002868.
  • Swanson-Wagner R, Briskine R, Schaefer R, Hufford MB, Ross-Ibarra J, Myers CL, Springer NM. Reshaping of the maize transcriptome by domestication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2012;109(29):11878-11883.
  • Paape T, Zhou P, Branca A, Briskine R, Young N, Tiffin P. Fine-scale population recombination rates, hotspots, and correlates of recombination in the Medicago truncatula genome. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2012;4(5):726-737
  • Branca A, Paape TD, Zhou P, Briskine R, Farmer AD, Mudge J, Bharti AK, Woodward JE, May GD, Gentzbittel L, Denny R, Sadowsky MJ, Ronfort J, Bataillon T, Young ND, Tiffin P. Whole-genome nucleotide diversity, recombination, and linkage disequilibrium in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2011;108(42):E864-E870.

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