Nicholas P. Tatonetti

215 Campus Drive West, MSOB x215, Stanford, CA 94305
480 467 7456
nick.tatonetti@stanford.edu

Education

2012
(Expected) Stanford University
Ph.D. Biomedical Informatics

2008 Arizona State University
B.S. Molecular Biosciences/Biotechnology
summa cum laude

2008 Arizona State University
B.S. Computational Mathematical Sciences
summa cum laude

Awards and Honors

September 2010 Department of Energy Graduate Fellowship (3 years)

September 2008 National Library of Medicine Training Grant Recipient

November 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Lifetime Member

May 2007 - October 2008 Beckman Scholar Award

April 2007 Goldwater Scholar Honorable Mention

August 2006 - May 2007 ASU SOLUR Researcher Award

May 2006 Molecular Biosciences/Biotechnology Outstanding Student

Publications

Tatonetti NP*, Dudley JT*, Altman RB. A Novel Method for Scoring Candidate Genes in Association Studies: Application to Warfarin Response. BMC Bioinformatics (In press).

Garten Y*, Tatonetti NP*, Altman RB. Improving the prediction of pharmacogenes using text-derived drug-gene relationships. Pac Symp Biocomput (2010) pp. 305-14. PMID:19908383

Tatonetti NP, Liu T, Altman RB. Predicting drug side-effects by chemical systems biology. Genome Biol (2009) vol. 10 (9) pp. 238, PMID:19723347

* Denotes equal contribution to paper.

Conference Presentations

Tatonetti NP*, Dudley JT*, Altman RB. A Novel Method for Scoring Candidate Genes in Association Studies: Application to Warfarin Response. American Medical Informatics Association Summit on Translation Bioinformatics 2010.

Tatonetti NP, Crook S, Vermaas W. MetabolODE: Optimization software for determining kinetic rate coefficients for biochemical pathways of metabolic isotopomers. Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics 2007.

Conference Posters

Tatonetti NP, Fernald GH, Altman RB. Usings Google's MapReduce Framework for Pharmacogenomics Discovery. Pac Symp Biocomput (2010).

Tatonetti NP, Dudley J, Altman RB. Defining pharmacogene sets that predict abnormal drug response to warfarin. Biomedical Computation at Stanford 2009.

Tatonetti NP, Crook S, Vermaas W. Parameter optimization in underdetermined biochemical networks. MetabolODE Optimization Software: How to solve an impossible problem. Beckam Scholars Symposium 2008.

Tatonetti NP, Crook S, Vermaas W. Optimization of in-vitro kinetic rate coefficients in biochemical reaction pathways. School of Life Sciences Research Symposium 2007.

Teaching Experience

September 2009 - December 2009 Teaching Assistant, Modeling biomedical systems: ontology, terminology, problem solving (BIOMEDIN210), Stanford University

March 2010 - May 2010 Teaching Assistant, Representations and Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology (BIOMEDIN214), Stanford University

Related and Professional Experience

March 2009 - Present Stimulomics, Inc., Portola Valley, CA
Chief Executive Officer

February 2009 - April 2010 Mophilia, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Chief Science Officer

August 2006 - August 2008 The CHERUB Foundation
Co-Founder (volunteer)

May 2006 - October 2007 The Triple Helix, Inc.
Chief Technical Officer (volunteer)

January 2006 - December 2006 The Triple Helix at ASU
Vice President/Co-Founder (volunteer)

January 2003 - August 2008 Tatonetti Web_Construction, Tempe, AZ
Founder/Owner

Knowledge and Skills

Biomedical data analysis, data integration, systems and chemical biology, pharmacogenomics, chemical informatics, network analysis, parametric and non-parametric statistics, hypothesis testing, bootstrapping, machine learning, gene-expression analysis.

C, C++, Fortran, Java, Matlab, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Prolog, Linux, Windows, OS X, SQL databases.