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Dan DeBlasio

Assistant Teaching Professor, Computational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon …
Verified email at cs.cmu.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Versatility of the complement system in neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration and brain homeostasis

F Orsini, D De Blasio, R Zangari, ER Zanier… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
… This molecule then associates factor B and factor D to form C3bBb (AP C3 convertase).
Similar to the C3 convertase generated in the CP and LP, this complex splits C3 into C3a and …

A virtual reality curriculum for pediatric residents decreases rates of influenza vaccine refusal

…, D DeBlasio, AF Beck, NJ Ollberding, D Davis… - Academic pediatrics, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Influenza vaccine hesitancy is common in the primary care setting. Though
physicians can affect caregivers' attitudes toward vaccination, physicians report uneasiness …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation of microRNA-375 and its role in melanoma development in humans

J Mazar, D DeBlasio, SS Govindarajan, S Zhang… - FEBS letters, 2011 - Elsevier
To identify epigenetically regulated miRNAs in melanoma, we treated a stage 3 melanoma
cell line WM1552C, with 5AzadC and/or 4-PBA. Several hypermethylated miRNAs were …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation of microRNA genes and the role of miR-34b in cell invasion and motility in human melanoma

J Mazar, D Khaitan, D DeBlasio, C Zhong… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
… C) and D) Cell invasion assays comparing untransfected WM1552C cells to stable
WM1552C/VO and WM1552C/34b cells. E) and F) Cell invasion assays comparing untransfected …

Locality-sensitive hashing for the edit distance

G Marçais, D DeBlasio, P Pandey, C Kingsford - Bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
d satisfies the triangle inequality and d ( x , y ) = 0 means that x = y. In other words, a dissimilarity
is a normalized distance. A similarity is a function s ( · , · ) such that 1 − s is a dissimilarity…

[HTML][HTML] Resident perspectives on communication training that utilizes immersive virtual reality

FJ Real, D DeBlasio, NJ Ollberding, D Davis… - Education for …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Communication skills can be difficult to teach and assess in busy outpatient
settings. These skills are important for effective counseling such as in cases of influenza …

Integration and impact of telemedicine in underserved pediatric primary care

J Walters, T Johnson, D DeBlasio, M Klein… - Clinical …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Telemedicine, more novel in provision of pediatric care, rapidly expanded due to the recent
coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. This study aimed to determine the feasibility of …

How much data is sufficient to learn high-performing algorithms? generalization guarantees for data-driven algorithm design

MF Balcan, D DeBlasio, T Dick, C Kingsford… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
… high performance in expectation over D. We provide generalization guarantees for this
problem. Given a training set of problem instances S sampled from D, a generalization guarantee …

Asymptotically optimal minimizers schemes

G Marçais, D DeBlasio, C Kingsford - Bioinformatics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… the de Bruijn graph D k in a w-dimensional hypercube C w ⁠, where edges in D k correspond
… The set W 0 is such that any path of w vertices in D k contains at least one vertex that maps …

Impact of a virtual reality curriculum on human papillomavirus vaccination: a pilot trial

…, AR Meisman, DJ DeBlasio, MB Pero, D Davis… - American journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although the strongest predictor of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is a high-quality
recommendation, physicians often provide weak recommendations. Thus, the authors …