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Natalie Castellana

Project:

IGERT Plant System Biology Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program

Role:

Graduate Student

Joined IGERT:

2008

Univ. or Institute:

University of California at San Diego

Department:

Computer Science

Primary Discipline:

Bioinformatics

Academic Interests:

Proteomics, Proteogenomics, computer science, bioinformatics

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Identification of protein-coding regions

The identification of all protein-coding elements in a genome is a fundamental goal of gene annotation. In previous work, IGERT student Natalie Castellana demonstrated that tandem mass spectrometry (MS)... More »

Poster

NSF IGERT 2011 Online Poster Competition Finalist - "Proteogenomics: Decoding the genome using proteomics"

The genome of every living organism contains the blueprints for creating proteins. Proteins are the…

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Achievement

Identification of protein-coding regions

The identification of all protein-coding elements in a genome is a fundamental goal of gene annotation….

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IGERT Story

2011 Online IGERT Poster Competition

NSF’s first online IGERT poster competition took place on IGERT.org from May 3rd to May 6th, 2011….

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2011 NSF IGERT Poster Competition Finalists

The 2011 NSF IGERT Poster Competition was tremendously successful and we would like to acknowledge…

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Poster

NSF IGERT 2011 Online Poster Competition Finalist - "Proteogenomics: Decoding the genome using proteomics"

The genome of every living organism contains the blueprints for creating proteins. Proteins are the…

more »

Achievement

Novel computational tool for protein sequencing

Protein sequencing is a challenging and time-consuming experimental endeavor. However, recent advancements…

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About Me

I am currently a fifth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of California-San Diego interested in Bioinformatics. My advisor is Dr. Vineet Bafna and my IGERT co-advisor is Dr. Steve Briggs. I am currently interested in applications of peptide mass spectrometry, particularly proteogenomics. Using computational tools, we are able to determine relative abundances of proteins, chemical modifications of proteins, and discover novel protein-coding genes.