Mik Black
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences
New Zealand
Biography
Associate Professor Black teaches a microarray module in BIOC 354 Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, a statistics module in BIOC 452 Metabolism and Regulation, and a course (STAT 435 Data Analysis for Bioinformatics ) on the use of statistical and bioinformatic methods for the analysis of data from microarray and second generation sequencing experiments.
Research Interest
Associate Professor Black's research interests include the analysis of data from gene expression microarray experiments, Bayesian statistical methods, and statistical computing.
Publications
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Cadzow M, Boocock J, Nguyen HT, Wilcox P, Merriman TR, Black MA. A bioinformatics workflow for detecting signatures of selection in genomic data. Frontiers in genetics. 2014;5.
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Nguyen HT, Merriman TR, Black MA. The CNVrd2 package: measurement of copy number at complex loci using high-throughput sequencing data. Frontiers in genetics. 2014;5.
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Mann MB, Black MA, Jones DJ, Ward JM, Yew CC, Newberg JY, Dupuy AJ, Rust AG, Bosenberg MW, McMahon M, Copeland NG. Transposon mutagenesis identifies genetic drivers of BrafV600E melanoma. Nature genetics. 2015 May 1;47(5):486-95.
