Paula Burch

Past

• Computer Programmer II at Baylor College of Medicine
• Staff scientist at Baylor College of Medicine
• Post-doctoral Associate at Baylor College of Medicine

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Education

• Rice University
• Rice University
• University of Maryland College Park

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Paula Burch’s Summary

I created a personal website that has become the number-one independent online resource on the subject of hand dyeing, attracting over 100,000 unique visits and 250,000 page views per month. It's the first result you see in Google if you search for "hand dye" or "tie dye".

Paula Burch’s Specialties:

My specialities include translating scientific and technical information so that it makes sense to non-scientists and artists. The same sort of thing in the other direction, translating users' needs to computers, was essential in my former job at the Genome Sequencing Center.

Paula Burch’s Experience

• Computer Programmer II

  Baylor College of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  July 2000 — July 2005 (5 years 1 month)

  I worked as troubleshooter for sequence data flow, as well as collaborating on research projects in comparative genomics.
  
  Publications:
  
  1. The finished DNA sequence of human chromosome 12. Nature. 2006 Mar 16;440(7082):346-51.
  
  2. The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome. Nature. 2005 Mar 17;434(7031):325-37.
  
  3. Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome. International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium. Nature 431, 931 - 945 (21 October 2004).
  
  4. Genomic Analysis of the Nuclear Receptor Family: New Insights Into Structure, Regulation, and Evolution From the Rat Genome. Zhengdong Zhang, Paula E. Burch, Austin J. Cooney, Rainer B. Lanz, Fred A. Pereira, Jiaqian Wu, Richard A. Gibbs, George Weinstock and David A. Wheeler. Genome Research 14:580-590, 2004.
  
  5. Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium. Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution. Nature 428, 493 - 521 (01 April 2004).

• Staff scientist

  Baylor College of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  February 1991 — June 2000 (9 years 5 months)

  Biologist and webmaster for the Molecular Biology Computation Resource, a core laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine. I provided support for scientists who needed to use software to analyze genetic sequences.
  
  
  Selected publications:
  
  1. D. Li, M. Quinones, W. Zoghbi, L. Bachinski, D. Mann, P. Burch, T. Tapscott, O. Gonzales, R. Hill, and R. Roberts (1999). A desmin mutation responsible for idopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. Circulation, 100:461-464.
  
  2. F. El-Zaatari, S. Naser, K. Hulten, P. Burch, and D. Graham. Characterization of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis p36 antigen and its seroreactivities in Crohn's Disease. Current Microbiology vol. 39 (1999), pp 115-119.
  
  3. Nucleotide Sequence Analysis and Seroreactivities of the 65K Heat Shock Protein from Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. F. El-Zaatari, S. Naser, L. Engstrand, P. Burch, C. Hachem, D. Whipple, and D. Graham. Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, Nov. 1995, 2(6): 657-664.

• Post-doctoral Associate

  Baylor College of Medicine

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  May 1989 — January 1991 (1 year 9 months)

  I was a post-doc in the laboratory of Lawrence Chan in the Cell Biology Department (now known as the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology).

Paula Burch’s Education

• Rice University

  Ph.D. , Biology , 1983 — 1989

  Thesis title: "DNA Damage and Cell Lethality by Photodynamically Produced Oxygen Radicals"

• Rice University

  M.A. , Biology , 1983 — 1986

• University of Maryland College Park

  B.S. , Biochemistry , 1978 — 1982

  Activities and Societies:

  Terrapin Trail Club

Additional Information

Paula Burch’s Groups:

•    Association of Rice Alumni
•    University of Maryland, College Park Alumni Association
•    Baylor College of Medicine

Paula Burch’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch