Multi-disciplinary Probabilistic Property-Based Model (PPBM) to Determine the Likelihood Risk of Development of Type II Diabetes Mellitus Within a Target Population

Principal Investigator

Collaborators: Dr. Deryck Persaud (CTO, Infogenetica Bioinformatics, Coquitlam, BC) and Dr. Veronica Dahl (Professor, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC)
Grant: Trinity Western University Diabetes Research Grant 2005 CDN$33,000. May 2005 - Dec. 2007

Training of Highly-Qualified Personnel:
Research Assistants

• Xingzi (Withy) Li (B.Sc., TWU, May 2006 - January 2007), Sarah Gillis (B.Sc., TWU, May 2005 - August 2006)
  • Implementation and population of PPBM Knowledge Base
• Kimberly Voll (Ph.D., SFU, May 2005 - May 2006)
  • Implementation of PPBM Risk Assessment Engine
• Gregory Eppel (B.Sc., TWU, May - December 2005)
  • Design, implementation and management of PPBM Databases

Volunteers

• Francisco Grajales (undergraduate student, January 2007 - present)
  • Bioinformatics Research Project: "Understanding the link among Metformin, AMP-Activated Protein Kinase, Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and their respective Alleles in North American Native Population with TII DM"
• Gregory Eppel (B.Sc., January - September 2006)
  • Management, maintenance, and support of PPBM databases
• Nicholas Erho, Edie Lin, Ryan Dullum, He (Nathan) Feng, Sarah Gillis (undergraduate students, May 2005 - May 2006)
  • Software Engineering Project: Web-based Diabetes Diagnostic Concepts Editor
• Robert (Bobby) Foster, Xingzi (Withy) Li, Sarah Gillis (undergraduate students, May - Aug. 2006), Sohail Aftab (B.Sc., January - April 2006)
  • Data Mining Project: "Cluster identification of common factors between individuals with type II diabetes from the National Health Interview Survey dataset"

Intelligent Guided eLearning Systems for Early Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Principal Investigator

Collaborators: Dr. Deryck Persaud (CTO, Infogenetica Bioinformatics, Coquitlam, BC), Dr. Ken Pudlas (Professor, School of Education, TWU) and Prof. Christina Belcher (Assistant Professor, School of Education, TWU)

Project: Intelligent Automation of High Throughput Genome Physical Mapping Systems.

In collaboration with Dr. Deryck Persaud (Principal Investigator, CTO, Infogenetica Bioinformatics, Coquitlam, BC)

Training of Highly-Qualified Personnel (Co-Supervisor: Dr. Barranco-Mendoza):

• Nicholas Erho (undergraduate student, May 2006 - present)
  • Undergraduate CMPT Honours Thesis: "The Development of a Low Cost, High Accuracy Method for Computational Electrophoresis Gel Image Analysis"
• Xingzi (Withy) Li (B.Sc.), Bj¿rn Bulthuis, and Nicholas Erho (undergraduate students, Sept. - Dec. 2006)
  • Artificial Intelligence Research Project: "Gel image analysis using AI techniques"/li>

Cluster Analysis of Multi-disciplinary Data from Comparative Experimental Treatment Outcome Study of Sexual Assault Recovery in Women with PTSD.

In collaboration with Dr. Rick Bradshaw (Principal Investigator. Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology, TWU)

Training of Highly-Qualified Personnel (Co-Supervisor: Dr. Barranco-Mendoza):

• Christopher K. Tse (Masters student in the counselling psychology program. September 2006 - present)