Clinical Systems Biology Team

Research Leadership and Staff

Students

Collaborators

• Joel Zysman, Center for Computational Science (CCS) – U Miami
• Dr. Patrick McGowan – U Toronto (Canada)
• Drs. Jim O’Callaghan / Diane Miller - CDC NIOSH - Neurotoxicology group
• Dr. Dane Cook – U Wisconsin Madison
• Dr. Ross Tsuyuki – U Alberta (Canada)
• Dr. Eileen Shinn – MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Drs. Sanjay Sethi, Peter Elkin, SUNY at Buffalo
• Dr. Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University
• Drs. Nancy Klimas, Mary Ann Fletcher, Mariana Morris, Miami VA Medical Center
• Drs. Travis Craddock, Barry Nierenberg, College of Psychology, Nova Southeastern University

Partners/Funders

• Center for Computational Science - University of Miami
• Congressionally Directed Medical Research Projects (CDMRP) - Dept. of Defense
• Department of Veterans Affairs
• National Institutes of Health

Alumni

• 2018-2019 Jeselle Clark (BSc/ MSc, Bioinformatics, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2019), Research Intern/ MSc candidate, "Simulating Pathway-Based Steady States to Prevent Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Ovarian Cancer"

• 2017-2018 Katherine Cooney (B.Sc., Biotechnology, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2018) Research intern, “A Regulatory Logic Map of Endocrine-immune Control in Female Physiology".

• 2012-2018 Mark Rice (B.Sc.), Chief Programmer, Broderick Lab, distinguished contributor to multiple DOD, VA and NIH initiatives in veteran's and women's health and key designer of the logic network paradigm and executable biology initiative. 

• 2012-2017 Saurabh Vashishtha (M.S.), Ph.D. candidate, Broderick Lab, Dept. of Medicine, University of Alberta Graduate student research assistant “Dynamic Network Models of Response to Challenge in Complex Endocrine-immune illnesses”

• 2014 Samuel Thomas (B.S., Behavioral Neuroscience, Nova Southeastern University, 2015) Research intern “A Biobehavioral Study of the Effects of Psychological Stress on the Sleep Patterns of Female College Students"

• 2013-2015 Jeanna Harvey (B.A. Distinction, M.D., University of Miami, 2015). Research intern. “Mechanisms of Immune-endocrine Interaction in Episodic Exacerbation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

• 2014, 2016 Shane Hills (B.S. Physics, Queen’s University, 2012) Research intern “Mapping Neurological Response to Exercise Challenge in Gulf War Illness”

• 2013 Lundy McKibbin (B.S. Distinction, M.D. student, class of 2016) Research intern “A study of the effects of PTSD co-morbidity on immune signature in Gulf War Illness”

• 2013 Simar Singh (M.S. Distinction, Stanford University)Graduate research assistant “A study of neuro-inflammatory mechanisms in Gulf War Illness”

• 2013 Alanna Bowie (B.S. Distinction, M.D. student, class of 2016). Research intern.“Prognostic Clinical Markers for Early Detection Chronic Sequela from Infectious Mononucleosis”

• 2013 Melissa Hwang (B.S. Distinction, M.D. student, class of 2016). Research intern. “Mechanisms of Immune-endocrine Interaction in Episodic Exacerbation of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

• 2012-2013 T. Craddock, Ph.D. (Ph.D., 2011). Research fellow. “Integrated Control and Multi-stability of the Fight or Flight Axis”

• 2012 AnneLiese Smylie (B.S. Honours, M.D., 2015). Research intern.“A Cytokine-based Screening Test for Gulf War Illness”

• 2012 Henrique Fernandes (B.Eng. Distinction, M.D., 2015). Research intern.“Identifying Common Molecular Traits and Emergent Patient Sub-groups in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

• 2011- Jeanna Harvey (B.S., M.D. University of Miami, 2015). Research intern.“Exercise Induced Immune Gene Expression in Gulf War Illness”

• 2010-2011 Scott De Graff (B.S., M.D., 2012). Research intern.“Models for Cardiovascular Dysregulation in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

• 2009 Christina Yang (M.S., M.D., 2011). Research intern.“A Study of Cognitive Deficits in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

• 2009 Andrea Kreitz (B.S., M.D., 2011). Research intern.“Emergent Patterns of Cytokine Expression in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Gulf War Illness”

• 2008-2009 Michael Gallagher (M.D. student, class of 2010). Research intern.“Immune Biomarkers in Gulf War Syndrome” 

• 2007-2010 J Fuite, Ph.D. (Ph.D., 2008). Research fellow."Network Theoretical Study of Neuro-immune Deficiency in Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War Illness"

• 2007 Ann Aspler (M.S.) (M.D., 2010). Research intern. “Evidence of Altered Neuroendocrine-immune Function in a Population-based Study of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”

• 2007 Carly Bolshin (B.S.) (M.D., 2010). Research intern.“Evidence of Altered Neuroendocrine-immune Function in a Population-based Study of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”