Biology

Assistant Professor

Contact

Email: castill0@umd.edu

Office Phone: 301.405.2005

Lab: 301.405.5613

Fax: 301.314.9358

Office Address: 2128 Bioscience Research Building

URL: http://www.cdl.cbcb.umd.edu/

Graduate Program Affiliations

BISI - Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
BISI - Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
BISI - Molecular & Cellular Biology (MOCB)

Research Interests

The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.

Recent Publications

Landry C.R.*, C. I. Castillo-Davis*, A. Ogura, Jun S. Liu, D. L. Hartl. 2007. Systems-level analysis and evolution of the phototransduction network in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(9):3283-3288.
Ma P*, Castillo-Davis CI*, Zhong W, Liu JS. 2006. A data-driven clustering method for time course gene expression data. Nucleic Acids Research 34: 1261-1269. *contributed equally
Castillo-Davis CI. 2005. The evolution of noncoding DNA: how much junk, how much func? Trends in Genetics 21(10): 533-536.
Castillo-Davis CI, Hartl DL, Achaz G. 2004. cis-regulatory and protein evolution in orthologous and duplicate genes. Genome Research 14(8): 1530-1536.
Castillo-Davis CI*, Kulathinal RJ*, Kondrashov FA, Hartl DL. 2004. The functional genomic distribution of protein divergence in two animal phyla: coevolution, genomic conflict, and constraint. Genome Research 14(5):802-811.

*contributed equally

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003. The genetic basis of phenotypic change, the evolution of gene regulation and gene networks, computational biology and statistics.