Junguk Hur Lab
Research Interests
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Ontology-Based Knowledge Systems and Literature Mining
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Systems Pharmacology
- Biological Aging
- Neurological Disorders, including Diabetic Neuropathy and ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
- Host-Pathogen Interactions
Principal Investigator

Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences; Director, Computational Data
Analysis Core; Lead, Research Design, Compliance & Data Management Core; Adjunct Research
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan; Research (Without Compensation), VA Fargo
Health Care System
- 701.777.6814
- 1301 N Columbia Rd Stop 9037,
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037
Lab website: hurlab.med.und.edu | GitHub: github.com/hurlab
Research Scientists & Visiting Scholars
Masha Savelieff, Ph.D.
Research Scientist; lab/grant manager, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Specialties: Chemistry, Neuroscience, Academic writing
Brett McGregor, Ph.D.
Data Analyst, Computational Data Analysis Core (CDAC), Department of Biomedical Sciences
Specialties: Bioinformatics, Single-cell Omics
- brett.mcgregor.3@UND.edu
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1301 N Columbia Rd Stop 9037,
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037
Kai Guo, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar; Research Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Specialties: Bioinformatics, Epigenetics, Transcriptomic analysis, Genome assembly, Molecular evolution
- kai.guo@UND.edu
kaiguo@umich.edu -
1301 N Columbia Rd Stop 9037,
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037
Babru Samal, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar; Research Scientist
Specialties: Bioinformatics
Students
Hasin Rehana, M.S.
Ph.D., Computer Sciences
Specialties: Bioinformatics, natural language processing, machine learning
Behnaz Karimialiabadi, M.S.
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences
Specialties: Genetics, Bioinformatics
Davis Payne, M.S.
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering
Specialties: Biomedical Engineering
Sayed Asaduzzaman, M.S.
Ph.D., Computer Science
Specialties: Imaging data analysis
Christianah Jemiyo, M.S.
Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence
Specialties: Artificial Intelligence
Francisco Mimica Porras, Ph.D.
Ph.D., Artificial Intelligence
Specialties: Epidemiology, Infection Surveillance
Timothy Ayeni
Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences
Alumni
Parker Combs
Former Undergraduate Student; now National Institute of Environmental & Health Sciences
Specialties: Programming
Benu Bansal, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. Student, Biomedical Engineering; now Assistant Professor, Meharry Medical
College
Specialties: Bioinformatics
Fang Huang, M.S.
Former Visiting Scholar; now Ph.D. Student, Chongqing Medical University
Specialties: Bioinformatics
Sarah Hong
Former Summer Visiting Student (remote undergraduate researcher); now Undergraduate
Student, Columbia University
Specialties: Programming
Jane Kim
Former Remote Research Intern (Chadwick International High School, Korea); now Undergraduate
Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Specialties: Bioinformatics, Programming
Guillermo De Anda Jauregui, Ph.D.
Former Post-doctoral Fellow; now Researcher, National Institute of Genomic Medicine
(INMEGEN), Mexico
Specialties: Systems and network biology, Systems pharmacology
Atrayee Ray, Ph.D.
Former Post-doctoral Fellow (co-mentored with Drs. Dhasarathy and Brissette); now
Research Scientist, Versiti Blood Research Institute
MD Obayed Raihan, Ph.D.
Former Post-doctoral Fellow (co-mentored with Dr. Porter); now Assistant Professor,
Chicago State University
Ling Li, Ph.D.
Former Visiting Scholar; now University of Tennessee Health Science Center (Xusheng
Wang Lab)
Temidayo Adeluwa, M.S.
Former M.S. Student, Biomedical Sciences; now Ph.D. Student, Genetics, Genomics and
Systems Biology, University of Chicago
Oluwatobiloba Aminu, M.S.
Former M.S. Student, Biomedical Sciences; now Ph.D. Student, Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology, Iowa State University
Dakota Krout
Former Undergraduate Student, Computer Science; now Author and President, Mountaindale
Press
Larson Danes
Former Undergraduate Co-op Student, Computer Science; now Software Engineer, Des Moines,
Iowa
Specialties: Bioinformatics software development