Curriculum Vitae of Pauline Ng

PAULINE C. NG

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave N, A1-162, Seattle, WA 98109 USA.

Telephone: (206) 667-4509; Fax: (206)667-5889; email: pauline@howard.fhcrc.org

Education

Ph.D. Bioengineering University of Washington, Seattle WA 1998-present

(to be received 2002) Dissertation: “PSSMs: Not just roadkill on the information superhighway”

Advisor: Steven Henikoff, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

B.Sc. Biology Caltech, Pasadena CA 1993-1997

Awards

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship 2000-present

National Science Foundation Fellowship 1998-2000

# Publications

Ng, P.C. and Henikoff, S. (2002) Accounting for human polymorphisms predicted to affect protein function. Genome Research, in press.

Ng P.C. and Henikoff, S. (2001) Predicting deleterious amino acid substitutions. Genome Research. 11:863-74.

Ng P.C., Henikoff J.G., and Henikoff, S. (2000) PHAT: a transmembrane-specific substitution matrix. Bioinformatics. 16: 760-6.

Extra-mural presentations

Ng, P.C., Henikoff, J.G., and Henikoff, S. PHAT: A transmembrane-specific substitution matrix. Poster presented at ISMB, U.C. San Diego (2000).

Ng, P.C. and Henikoff, S. SIFT: A sequence-based tool for predicting deleterious amino acid substitutions. Poster presented at Keystone Symposia: Human Genetics and Genomics, Breckenridge CO (2001). Scholarship winner.

Curricular activities

Member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.

Member of Sigma Xi Research Society.

Teaching experience

Summer 2001 Lecturer, Genotype to Phenotype workshop, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Spring 1998 Educational Outreach Intern, Chevron, Richmond, CA

Fall 1996 Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate Biology Course, California Institute of Technology