Professor and Associate Dean for Biomedical Affairs & Research at VCOM-LC focusing on comparative genomics, bioinformatics, and One Health; head of the Integrative Genome Analysis Lab (IGAL) at the Center for One Health Research. His team has employed an integrative approach with a variety of molecular, computational, and modeling techniques, including NextGen sequencing of entire genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes to a rigorous understanding of how complexity elaborates from genomes through gene regulatory networks, and how it evolves over generations in response to environmental stress and intragenomic challenges. He worked in nine universities in four countries across three continents. His research resulted in a book (another is in preparation), multiple book chapters, and about 80 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, including “Science”, “Nature”, and “Cell”, already cited about 3,000 times and popularized by various public media.
| Year | University | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Louisiana State University | Postdoc |
| 2002 | University of Chicago | Postdoc |
| 2000 | University of Haifa, Israel | Postdoc |
| 2000 | University of Bialystok, Poland | Postdoc |
| 1997 | Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland | PhD-Biology |
| 1993 | Unversity of Lodz, Poland | MS-Biology |
The research interests of the Lipsmeyer lab are focused on female reproductive physiology and women’s reproductive health. Utilizing a combination of in vitro and in vitro models, we are currently investigating the contribution of the microbiome to normal female reproductive physiology and how perturbations in in the microbiome by diseases such as obesity and polycystic ovarian syndrome lead to dysfunction in the ovary, uterus and placenta. The Lipsmeyer lab is also interested in changes in the microbiome during pregnancy and how microbial derived metabolites contribute to maternal and fetal health and pregnancy outcomes.
| Year | University | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Loyola College of Maryland | MBA |
| 1985 | Loyola College of Maryland | BBA |
My research interests include bioinformatics, genetics, genomics, computational biology, evolutionary biology, and cancer-related research. My research focuses on analyzing different kinds of genomic and transcriptomic data including those related to cancer and other diseases using the technologies of next-generation sequencing and third-generation sequencing (such as Oxford Nanopore), developing new tools/pipelines, and using comparative genomics tools to understand evolution and disease development in a systemic perspective. My capabilities are mostly computational and biostatistical.
| 2017 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | PhD-Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
| 2010 | Xiamen University, Xiamen, China | MS-Computer Science |