Bioinformatics at GT Faculty Panel

Which disease is Prof. Jordan specifically studying the relationship between human ancestry and the genetic factors that influence an individual's overall health?

• Alzheimers

• Type I diabetes

• Type II diabetes

• Dementia

Dr. Jordan emphasized that a very good skill to learn to get into research is....

• Write a convincing email

• Show up at their door step with a gift basket

• Beg

• Just ask around

Dr. Mitchell related the piece-wise data she uses to...?

• Cake

• A quilt

• Pies

• A computer

The first eukaryotic genome sequenced was...

• E. Coli

• Human Genome

• Mice

• Baker's yeast

Dr. Mitchell emphasized what piece of advice for students trying to dip their toe in to bioinformatics?

• Get in any research lab you can

• Don't try and author a paper

• Go from lab to lab each semester

• Don't jump around labs too often

Dr. Jordan is the director of what graduate program?

• Biomedical Engineering

• Biology

• Bioinformatics

• Computer Science

Dr. Mitchell got her bachelor's at...?

• Emory

• Oklahoma University

• Oklahoma State

• Georgia Tech

Dr. Jordan's lab is particularly interested in finding _____ in the genome.

• Disease/Health risk factors

• Methylated CpGs

• Mutations (any and all of them)

• Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

Come August, Dr. Mitchell will become a(n)...

• Principle Investigator

• Associate Professor

• Master's student

• Assistant Professor

Dr. Jordan studied what insect?

• Ants

• Grasshopper

• Bees

• Beetle