JOSEPH S. VERDUCCI

My current research centers around the practical problem of developing statistical tools to help chemists identify key chemical features of biologically active drugs. The problems vary from using High Throughput Screening to select small informative sets of chemicals for testing, to adapting Machine Learning methods to explore huge chemical databases for common structures linked to biological activity. This work is joint with Paul Blower of Leadscope and Mike Fligner of OSU. I am also working with Mary Fristad from Psychiatry and Cheryl Dingus from our PhD program on longitudinal analyses of cohorts in a cross-over study of educational support for families with a psychologically disturbed child. Jeremy Strief, a former Undergraduate Research Fellow from St. Olaf's, continues to work with us on this project.