This is the research lab home page of Vincent VanBuren, PhD. Our research focus is (1) reconstruction of biological networks from data-derived theoretical networks and (2) modeling the emergent behavior of stochastic biological systems.

Dr. VanBuren is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine (SBTM), College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center. Dr. VanBuren is also the Director of the SBTM Microarray Laboratory, and a member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute.

For more about our research interests, click on a link on the right, or see Dr. VanBuren's profile page. If you have questions about this page, our research program, or about joining our graduate program, please contact Dr. VanBuren by email.

Summer research opportunities :
Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Medical Student Summer Research Program


March 2008: Jupiter, D.C. and VanBuren, V. A Visual Data Mining Tool that Facilitates Reconstruction of Transcription Regulatory Networks. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1717 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001717 [PDF] [Link to StarNet]

March 2008: Huang, H.C., Jupiter, D., Qiu M., Briggs, J.M., VanBuren, V. Cluster analysis of hydration waters around the active sites of bacterial alanine racemase using a 2-ns MD simulation. Biopolymers 89(3) 210-219 (* Featured on the journal cover) . [PDF]