Bioinformatics Faculty

Ann Loraine
Personal Website: http://www.lorainelab.org/ Degree Institution: UC BerkeleyDegree: Ph.D. Molecular and Cell BiologyYear Graduated: 1996 Publications: Click Here to View Publications

Robert Reid
Dr. Reid uses computational technologies and statistics for biological data analysis with expertise in sequence, variant and pathway analysis and genome sequence assembly. He has produced genome assemblies in many species, including blueberry, oat, drosophila, starfish and sea cucumbers. His past works includes developing open source software visualization tools to create stunning visual linkage map […]

Rebekah Rogers
Dr. Rebekah Rogers studies evolution of genome structure mutations and new gene formation. Dr. Rogers did her undergrad in the Department of Genetics at the University of Georgia. She received her PhD in Biology from Harvard University in 2011. She did her postdoctoral research at UC Irvine and UC Berkeley. She joined the faculty at […]

Jessica Schlueter
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EjqqFLQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aoDegree Institution: Iowa State University Degree: Ph.D., Genetics Year Graduated: 2006 Dr. Schlueter received her BS in Genetics from Texas A&M and her PhD in Genetics at Iowa State University. Prior to arriving at UNC Charlotte in 2009, Dr. Schlueter was a postdoc at Purdue University. Dr. Schlueter’s research focus is plant genome sequencing and […]


Zheng-Chang Su
Personal Webpage: https://sulab.charlotte.edu/ Degree Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham Degree: Ph.D. Physiology and Biophysics Year Graduated: 2000 Publications: Google scholar Zhenchang Su , Phuongan Dam, Xin Chen, Victor Olman, Tao Jiang, Brian Plaenik and Ying Xu. Computational inference and experimental validation of nitrogen assimilation regulatory network in cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH8102. Nucleic Acids Research. […]

Way Sung
Degree Institution: University of New Hampshire, 2010. Degree: Ph.D. Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Way Sung is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. He received his PhD from the University of New Hampshire, and performed postdoctoral research at Indiana University. His contributions to […]

Jun Wang
Dr. Jun Wang received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Wuhan University, China in 2000 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship from DAAD, Germany (2000-2001). Then, he pursued his postdoc research in the California State University at Los Angeles (LA) and the University of California at LA, respectively (2001-2005). He jointed Pacific Northwest National Laboratory […]

Adam Whaley
Dr. Whaley did his undergraduate work at East Carolina University in Biology before coming to UNCC for graduate school where he worked with Dr. Schlueter. His graduate and postdoctoral research was focused on plant genomics and transcriptomics. He joined the faculty in 2018 as an assistant teaching professor. Publication link: http://uncc.academia.edu/AdamWhaley

Richard Allen White III
B.S. Cellular and Molecular Biology California State University – East Bay (formally Hayward) M.S. Biology (Molecular Virology) California State University – East Bay (formally Hayward) Ph.D. Microbiology and Immunology University of British Columbia Postdoctoral Computational biology Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) Specialities: – Bioinformatics/Computational biology – Multiomics (Next Generation Sequencing/Mass Spectrometry) – Virology […]