Ana Pavel
Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics, Boston University
Spira-Lenburg Lab
Education
B.Eng., Computer Science, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 2009
M.Eng., Intelligent Control Systems, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 2011
B.S., Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 2011
Contact Information
Email: anapavel@bu.edu
Research Interests
Identify microRNA regulators of gene expression in bronchial epithelium using miRNAseq and mRNA expression. This project is focused on analysis and integration of microRNA and mRNA expression data to determine functional changes which occur in bronchial epithelium of human patients in different phenotypes such as cancer, smoking, and age. MicroRNA-mRNA association networks are being analyzed in order to develop clinically useful biomarkers for lung cancer and COPD.
Selected Publications
1. Pavel A.B., Vasile C.I., PyElph – a Software Tool for Gel Images Analysis and Phylogenetics, BMC Bioinformatics (ISI), vol. 13, no. 9, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/9, January 13, 2012
2. Vasile C.I., Pavel A.B. , Dumitrache I., Universality of Enzymatic Numerical P Systems, International Journal of Computer Mathematics (ISI), http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207160.2012.748897, February 06, 2013
3. Pavel A.B., Vasile C.I., Dumitrache I., Robot localization implemented with enzymatic numerical P systems, Living Machines 2012 – The International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Barcelona, Spain, July 9-12, 2012, Proceedings in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer (ISI Conference Proceedings),http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-31525-1_18, vol. 7375, pp. 204-215, 2012
4. Vasile C.I., Pavel A.B., Dumitrache I, Paun Gh., On the Power of Enzymatic Numerical P Systems (http://www.springerlink.com/content/x77850021373gh64/ ), Acta Informatica (ISI), Springer, vol.49, no. 6, pp. 395-412, doi:10.1007/s00236-012-0166-y, 2012
5. Pavel A.B. and Buiu C., Using enzymatic numerical P systems for modeling mobile robot controllers (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11047-011-9286-5 ), Natural Computing (ISI), Springer, vol. 11, nr. 3, pp. 387-393, 2012
6. García-Quismondo M., Pavel A.B., Pérez-Jiménez. M.J., Simulating Large-Scale ENPS Models by Means of GPU, Proceedings of the 10th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (http://www.gcn.us.es/icdmc2012_proceedings ), vol. 1, pp. 137-152, Seville, Spain, January 30-February 3, 2012
7. Vasile C.I., Pavel A.B. , Dumitrache I., Kelemen J., Implementing obstacle avoidance and follower behaviors on Koala robots using Numerical P Systems, Proceedings of the 10th Brainstorming Week on Membrane Computing (http://www.gcn.us.es/icdmc2012_proceedings), vol. 2, pp. 215-228, Seville, Spain, January 30-February 3, 2012
8. Vasile C.I., Pavel A.B., Buiu C., Integrating human swarm interaction in a distributed robotic control system, Proceedings of IEEE 7th Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Trieste, pp. 743 – 748, Italy, 24-27 August 2011
9. Pavel A.B. and Buiu C., Development of an embedded artificial vision system for an autonomous robot (http://www.ijicic.org/09-1014-1.pdf ), International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, ISSN 1349-4198, vol.7, nr. 2, pp. 745-762, February 2011
10. Pavel A.B., Arsene O., Buiu C., Enzymatic Numerical P Systems – A New Class of Membrane Computing Systems, Proceedings of BIC-TA 2010, IEEE Fifth International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theory and Applications, vol. 2, pp. 1331-1336, Liverpool, U.K., September 2010