Lowe Lab
Department of Biomolecular Engineering
School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz
241B Sinsheimer Labs
pchanATsoeDOTucscDOTcom
I am a second year PhD Bioinformatics student.
My research interest is identifying novel non-coding RNAs and their functions
in prokaryotes including archaea and eubacteria using comparative genomics,
microarray, and any other technologies.
Besides being a graduate student, I am also
a software engineer and a graphic designer. The software that I design
and develop are mostly written in C++ and Java. Occasionally I will
develop in Visual Basic and Perl. In addition, I work on database modeling
and develop in Oracle PL/SQL, Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL, and Postgre
SQL. I usually develop for Windows environment, but start getting use to
Linux now.
My graphic design environment is Mac OS. I use
Quark XPress, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator for print design including
posters, mailers, corporate logos, book cover and layout, and whatever
can be printed out on paper. For web design, Macromedia Dreamveaver and
Macromedia Flash are the main tools. Here is a poster that I designed most
recently for Alternative Splicing section in PSB 2004.