About MeMy name is Sumaira Zaman and I graduated with my Master's in Jill Wegrzyn's Lab at the University of Connecticut in the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department but continue to work on various project (mainly genome annotation of conifers). We are a computational plant genomics lab, working on a wide variety of project, trying to save the earth one plant at a time. After graduation, I was recruited into the Computational Biology Lab at the at the University of Connecticut. We develop algorithms and models to infer gene family evolution. I am a firm believer in open source and I try to document my research as much as possible with my gitlab. I am always interested in new genome projects, so if you have any questions and/or ideas about genome annotation, feel free to reach out!
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My Research
I have worked on a few plant genome annotation projects including
Douglas fir, walnut trees, loblolly pine, and the most current project, sugar pine. As much as I
enjoy annotating these beautiful trees, I feel there is a large gap regarding accurate gene prediction softwares that are easy to train. In my spare time, I like to think about how to fill this void. Furthermore, assessing genome completeness for coniferous tree is challenging due to lack of resources. To combat this, I am working on developing a Tripal module hosted on TreeGenes to help forest tree researchers analyze and visualize orthologous gene families from selected species of interest residing in the TreeGenes database.
My phD research is in the beginning stages. Currently, I am studying the impact of domain evolution and it's effect on reconstructing the history of evolution for any given gene family. Given it's impact, I am thinking about ways to infer domain sequences in a statistical (bayesian machine learning) framework. I am also evaluating whether domain architecture in eukaryotes can interfere with inference of gene family evolution.
Contact Me
Lab:
Engineering & Science Building, Room 316
University of Connecticut
181 Auditorium Road
Storrs, CT, 06269
Email:
[email protected]
Engineering & Science Building, Room 316
University of Connecticut
181 Auditorium Road
Storrs, CT, 06269
Email:
[email protected]
