Dr. Oleg Paliy, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

260 Diggs, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 3640 Col. Glenn Hwy, Dayton, OH 45435

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Education:

B.Sc.+M.Sc.: Lviv State University, Lviv, Ukraine. 1992-1997. Genetics and Genetic Engineering.

Ph.D.: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. 1997-2001. Microbiology, Molecular and Structural Biology.

Postdoctoral: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. 2001-2004. Microbiology and Systems Biology.

• Role of intestinal bacteria in human health and disease

• Host-pathogen interactions and stress tolerance of pathogenic Escherichia coli

• Use of genetic engineering and mathematical modeling to study principles of gene and genome functions

• Standard microbiology techniques

• Standard cloning methods

• Gene expression profiling with microarrays

• Microbial community analysis by 16S RNA sequencing and phylogenetic microarrays

• Bioinformatics and computational biology

• Biostatistics
  

• Paper published:

  O. Paliy, S.M. Gargac, Y. Cheng, V.N. Uversky, and A.K. Dunker. Protein disorder is positively correlated with gene expression in E. coli (2008) J. Proteome Research 7(6), 2234-45. [Impact Factor: 5.68 (2007 ISI)]

• Harsha Kenche received Student Recognition award:

  Wright State University Graduate Student Excellence Award for 2007 academic year.

• Paper published:

  T.S. Gunasekera, L.N. Csonka, and O. Paliy. Genome-wide transcriptional responses of Escherichia coli K12 to heat and osmotic stresses (2008) J. Bacteriology 190 (10), 3712-20. [Impact Factor: 4.01 (2007 ISI)]

• NIH NCCAM [2008-2010] "Using Affymetrix Microflora array to study microflora composition in children with IBS"

• WSU SoM Research Challenge [2007-2008] "Design and implementation of custom GeneChip community microarray to study human microflora"

• WSU Seed Grant [2006] "Escherichia coli response to high temperature and increased osmolarity at gene expression level"

• WBI Center grant [2004-2006] "Center of excellence in cellular dynamics and engineering"