Wheeler Lab Folks
Travis Wheeler
Chief Suggestion Officer and Manuscript Bottleneck
Email | Personal Page | Curriculum Vitae | Google
Scholar profile | 
University of Arizona
Department
of Pharmacy Practice & Science
Affiliate:
Computer
Science, Statistics and Data Science,
Genetics, Center for Drug
Discovery, Bio5,
Applied Mathematics, School of Information,
Editorial Board Member - Bioinformatics
Advances, Mobile
DNA
Advisory Board Member - Montana IDeA Network of Biomedical
Research Excellence
Research: Computational genomics, Computational drug discovery, Machine Learning
Research staff
Clément Goubert
Research Professor – Email
| Personal Page
Transposable elements, evolution, splicing, and all things genomics
Jack Roddy
Senior Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Jack of all trades, master of some
(including sequence
annotation and visualization)
Ken Youens-Clark
Senior Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Software and web/cloud services
Genevieve Krause
Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Sequence annotation with profile HMMs; frameshift model for protein-coding DNA.
George Glidden
Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Peptide and modification identification in Mass Spectrometry; animal tracking.
Terrill Yuhas
Senior Data Architect – Email
| Personal Page
(Joint
with Bonnie LaFleur)
Building data systems for precision medicine research
Isaac Robinson
Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Algorithms for sequence annotation; ML methods for tracking and behavior classification.
Jeb Rosen
Senior Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Algorithms for sequence annotation
Kenji Kojima
Senior Data Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Transposable Element curation (Dfam)
Weidong Bao
Senior Data Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Transposable Element curation (Dfam)
Noriko Kojima
Data Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Transposable Element curation (Dfam)
Postdocs
(None at the moment; maybe you?)
PhD students
Jeremiah Gaiser
PhD student, School of Information (2023-) – Email | Personal Page
Biochem PhD
student in Wheeler lab at UMontana (2020-2023) (transfered to UofA)
Previously: Undergraduate researcher, Biochemistry, (2017-2020);
Research: Protein-drug biding affinity prediction
BS, Computational Biochemistry, University of Montana
Neha Sontakke
PhD student, Computer Science (2023-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Algorithms and statistical models for metabolic network gap filling
BS, Computer Science, Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Dylan Wichman
PhD student, Computer Science (2026-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Deep Learning for drug discovery
BS, Computer Science, Louisiana State University
Manh Nguyen
PhD student, Statistics (2026-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Deep Learning for sequence annotation
BS, Statistics, Data Science, and Mathematics, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Masters students
(None at the moment; maybe you?)
Undergraduate students
(None at the moment; maybe you?)
Lab Alumni
Regular Collaborators
Arian Smit (Institute for Systems Biology)
Robert Hubley (Institute for Systems Biology)
Amit Roy (University of Montana)
Travis Hughes (University of Montana)
Jason McDermott (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Nathan Insel (Wilfrid Laurier University)