Douglas J. Cork, Ph.D.

Professor of Biology

BCPS/ Biology Division

Office: 394 Life Sciences Building
Office Hours:
Phone: 312.567.3492
Fax: 312.567.3494
Email: cork@iit.edu
Web: Cork's Web page

Expertise

• Computational Bioinformatics, Bench driven work on Salmonella, E.coli, Chlorobium, SRB’s and Bacillus, Pseudomonas

Education

• B.S, University of Arizona
• Ph.D, University of Arizona

Curriculum Vitae

Research & Major Accomplishments

Current Projects

• USA Poultry

Awards/Honors

• Baird Scholar
• ROTC 4 year Scholarship

Patents

• Sulfate to Sulfure from Gypsum by microbial mutualism
• Lost patent for Banvel degrading Soybeans from herbicide degrading Pseudomonas strains: pending court

Books

• ASM DIMACS; and Microbial Kinetogenomics—a primer for UGRADS (to be published this year)

Selected Publications

Cork, D.J., Toguem, A., J. Kenevan, Y-C Tsai and T. Hutch, “Using Fuzzy Logic to Confirm the Integrity of a Pattern Recognition Algorithm for Long Genomic Sequences—The W-curve,” PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (METMBS). June 25-28, 2001. Pgs. 60-66

In Proteomics and Structural Genomics 1, Hamid Arabnia, H. Valafar, and Mourad Elloumi, editors, CSREA press, 2001.

Cork, D. J. and T. B. Hutch, “The W-curve: A Pattern Recognition Algorithm for Visualizing Long Genomic Sequences”, PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING TECHNIQUES IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (METMBS). June 25-28, 2001. Pgs. 67-73 In Proteomics and Structural Genomics I, Hamid Arabnia, H. Valafar, and Mourad Elloumi, editors, CSREA press, 2001.

Cork, D.J. and J. Tursman, Improved Chloroaromatic Metabolism Using an Anaerobic in-situ/ex-situ Process, feature article in SIMN, Vol. 50, No. 1, p. 5-9, Jan/Feb., 2000
Cork, D.J. and A. Khalil, Plasmid-mediated catabolism of dicamba (3,6 dichloro-2-methoxy benzoic acid) by Pseudomonas sp. strain PXM, Microbios, Vol. 102, no. 403, p. 183-191, 2000

Cork, D.J., N. Wu and Y-C Tsai, 2000. A Connectionist Approach to Microbial Bioremediation in Evolutionary Algorithms and Neural Nets, p. 521-530, AIME Press, 2000.

AEM, SIM (DIM), JIMBIO, ASM, JACS:  Journal of Agricultural Food Sciences, SIG, IEEE

Professional Society Memberships

• IEEE (Associate Member)
• ASM
• SIM
• ACS
• AICHE (Associate Member)

Editorial Board Service

Professional Society Service

Grants

Community Service

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