Blaz Zupan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

bzupan@gmail.com

Assistant Professor: Mol. & Human Gen./Shaulsky
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX, US

BSc from University of Ljubljana: 12/1991 - Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Electrical Engineering

MSc from University of Houston: 12/1993 - Houston, Texas, United States; Computer Science

PhD from University of Ljubljana: 06/1997 - Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Computer Science

VIICTR Publications List

Orange

Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting.

dictyExpress

An interactive search and exploration tool for the BCM Dictyostelium gene expression database.

GenePath

Intelligent assistant for qualitative epistasis analysis and inference of genetic networks.

Miranda ER, Zhuchenko O, Toplak M, Santhanam B, Zupan B, Kuspa A, Shaulsky G. " ABC transporters in Dictyostelium discoideum development " PLoS One. 2013 Aug 14; 8 (8)
Pubmed PMID: 23967067.
Zitnik M, Janjic V, Larminie C, Zupan B, Przulj N. " Discovering disease-disease associations by fusing systems-level molecular data " Sci Rep.. 2013 15; (3) : 3203.
Pubmed PMID: 24232732.
Mendes I, Franco-Duarte R, Umek L, Fonseca E, Drumonde-Neves J, Dequin S, Zupan B, Schuller D. " Computational models for prediction of yeast strain potential for winemaking from phenotypic profiles " PLoS One. 2013 Jul 16; 8 (7) : e66523.
Pubmed PMID: 23874393.
Nasser W, Santhanam B, Miranda ER, Parikh A, Juneja K, Rot G, Dinh C, Chen R, Zupan B, Shaulsky G, Kuspa A. " Bacterial discrimination by dictyostelid amoebae reveals the complexity of ancient interspecies interactions " Curr Biol. 2013 May 20; 23 (10) : 862-72.
Pubmed PMID: 23664307.
Miranda ER, Rot G, Toplak M, Santhanam B, Curk T, Shaulsky G, Zupan B. " Transcriptional profiling of Dictyostelium with RNA sequencing " Methods Mol Biol. 2013 ; (983) : 139-71.
Pubmed PMID: 23494306.

Functional Genomics of Dictyostelium: NIH/NICHD (06/2013 - 04/2017); Program Project; Adam Kuspa PI / Project Leader; Other PIs - Gad Shaulsky, Richard Sucgang, Blaz Zupan. Goals: This Program Project is aimed at understanding the mechanisms that control growth and multicellular development in Dictyostelium.

Functional genomics of Dictyostelium #P01 HD039691: $854,874.00 (06/19/2013 - 04/30/2017); NIH/NICHD; Program Project; Adam Kuspa PI / Project Leader; Other PIs - Gad Shaulsky, Richard Sucgang, Blaz Zupan. Goals: This Program Project is aimed at understanding the mechanisms that control growth and multicellular development in Dictyostelium.