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    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

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