Overview Academic/Research Interest Areas

Anthony Fodor did his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington in the lab of Dr. Bill Zagotta. His dissertation research focused on the molecular mechanism of local anesthetic block of ion channels. He then worked as a software developer at a number of obscure Seattle dot-coms and then as a bioinformatics programmer at the biotech company Immunex. He returned to academics for a post-doc in the lab of Dr. Rick Aldrich at Stanford. His research interests include algorithm development in bioinformatics and the functional genomics of transporters and ion channels.

Recent Publications

Anthony A Fodor, Timothy L Tickle and Christine Richardson, Towards the uniform distribution of null p-values on microarrays, Submitted.

Cochlear function in mice lacking the bk channel alpha, beta-1, OR beta-4 Subunits, Sonja J. Pyott, Andrea L. Meredith, Anthony A. Fodor, Ana E. Va?zquez, Ebenezer N. Yamoah, Richard W. Aldrich, Submitted.

Andrea L Meredith, Steven W Wiler, Brooke H Miller, Joseph S Takahashi, Anthony A Fodor, Norman F Ruby, Richard W Aldrich, BK calcium-activated potassium channels regulate circadian behavioral rhythms and pacemaker output, Nature Neuroscience, 9, 1041-1049, 2006.

Anthony A. Fodor, Richard W. Aldrich. Statistical Limits to the Identification of Ion Channel Domains by Sequence Similarity. JGP 127(6), 755-766, 2006.

Anthony A. Fodor, Richard W. Aldrich. On Evolutionary Conservation of Thermodynamic Coupling in Proteins. JBC 279(18):19046-19050, 2004.

John P. Dekker, Anthony Fodor, Richard Aldrich and Gary Yellen. A pertubation-based method for calculating explicit likelihood of evolutionary co-variance in multiple sequence alignments. Bioinformatics 20:1565-1572, 2004.

Educational Background

Ph.D., Physiology and Biophysics, Dr. Bill Zagotta's lab, University of Washington.

Post-doc, Dr. Rick Aldrich's lab, Stanford.