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Joined LSUHS - 2004

EDUCATION/TRAINING

MBA – University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA

ScD – University of Massachusetts Lowell, MA

HONORS/AWARDS

2019 LSUS Outstanding Faculty Award – Research

2016 – present Lisa Burke Endowed Bioinformatics Professorship

TECHNOLOGY DISCLOSURES

2 disclosures in 2019-20 through LSUS, 1 through LSUHS

Urska Cvek, ScD, MBA

Professor, Department of Computer Science, LSUS Co-Director, Laboratory for Advanced Biomedical Informatics, LSUS Urska.Cvek@lsus.edu

CURRENT RESEARCH My research work is in data analytics and knowledge discovery of life science data sets. I contribute to the field of brain injury and disease by guiding researchers on the design of experiments, statistical analysis and elucidation of information found in their data.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS P. Kilgore, M. Trutschl, H.W. Nam, A.P. Cornelius, U. Cvek. “Augmented classical self- organizing map for visualization of discrete data.” Chapter in Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Visualization for Visual Knowledge Discovery, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 1014. ISBN: 978- 3030931186. 6/2022.

E. Disbrow, K.Y. Stokes, C. Ledbetter, J. Patterson, R.A. Kelley, S. Pardue, T. Reekes, L. Larmeu, V. Batra, S. Yuan, U. Cvek, M. Trutschl, P.C.S.R. Kilgore, J.S. Alexander, C.G. Kevil. Plasma hydrogen sulfide: A biomarker of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Alzheimer’s Dement. 2021; 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12305.

H.W. Nam, C. Grant, A. Jorgensen, M. Trutschl, U. Cvek. Neurogranin Regulates Alcohol Sensitivity Through AKT Pathway in the Nucleus Accumbens. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201900266 Proteomics 2019, 20, 1900266.

J.W. Yun, U. Cvek, P.C.S.R. Kilgore, I. Tsunoda, S. Omura, F. Sato, R. Zivadinov, M. Ramanathan, A. Minagar, J.S. Alexander, Neurolymphatic Biomarkers of Brain Endothelial Inflammatory Activation: Implications for Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis. Life Sciences Elsevier Journal. 229, doi. org/10.1016/j.lfs.2019.05.021 (July 2019).

P. Kilgore, M. Trutschl, U. Cvek, J.S. Alexander. Improving Comprehension of Large Taxonomic Graphs. Proc. of MediVis2019 - 16th International Conference on BioMedical Visualisation, Paris, France, July 2019, IEEE Computer Society Press.

Stephanie Villalba, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Louisiana State University in Shreveport Gratis Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology LSU Health Shreveport Stephanie.Villalba@lsus.edu

CURRENT RESEARCH

Dr. Villalba currently collaborates with Dr. Kathryn A. Hamilton studying RNA expression in adult mouse olfactory epithelium. This research will contribute to the availability of biomarkers for olfactory sensory neuron maturation.

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