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, School of Information
Applied Mathematics, Statistics
and Data Science
Genetics, Bio5
Editorial Board Member - Mobile
DNA
Advisory Board Member - IDeA Network of Biomedical Research
Excellence
Research: Computational genomics, Computational drug discovery, Machine Learning
Support staff
Erin Chaballa
Administrative Assistant – Email
Research staff
Jack Roddy
Senior Software Scientist – Email | Personal Page
Jack of all trades, master of some
(including sequence
annotation and visualization)
Clément Goubert
Senior Bioinformatician – Email | Personal Page
Transposable elements, evolution, splicing, and all things genomics
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
Ethan Ward
Full Stack Developer – Email | Personal Page
Full stack web development on multiple projects
David Jurkowitz
Junior Bioinformatician – Email | Personal Page
Protein binding pocket prediction
Noor Subah
Bioinformatician – Email | Personal Page
Transcriptomics, flow cytometry, differential splicing (and more)
PhD students
Daniel Olson
PhD candidate, Computer Science (UMontana, NIH-NIAID) (2017-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Models for repetitive biological sequences; adaptive element detection in sequence data
BS, Biochemistry, University of Montana
Anna Marbut
PhD candidate, Computer Science (DIS) (UMontana) (2019-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Language representation (ML and NLP)
BA, Linguistics, Reed College
MA, Business Analytics, University
of Montana
Jeremiah Gaiser
PhD student, School of Information (2023-) – Email | Personal Page
Previously:
Undergraduate researcher, Biochemistry, (2017-2020); Biochem PhD in
Wheeler lab at UMontana (2020-2023)
Research: Protein-drug biding affinity prediction
BS, Computational Biochemistry, University of Montana
Neha Sontakke
PhD student, Computer Science (2021-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Protein interactions: computational annotation and functional prediction
BS, Computer Engineering, Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Masters students
Max Copeland
MS student, Computer Science (UMontana) (2022-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Petascale genomics in the cloud
BS, Physics, University of Missouri
Sadaf Raoufi
MS student, Computer Science (2022-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Computational precision medicine
BS, Computer Engineering, Qom University of Technology, Iran
Patricia Woo
MS student, Business Analytics (2024-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Computational drug screening
Bachelors and Masters, Pharmacy, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
HK
Undergraduate students
Peniella Irakoze
Undergraduate researcher, Microbiology (2023-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Genomics (splicing oddities, transposons)
Zach Keyes
Undergraduate researcher, School of Information (2024-) – Email | Personal Page
Research: Alignment-free sequence comparison
Lab Alumni
Regular Collaborators
Arian Smit (Institute for Systems Biology)
Robert Hubley (Institute for Systems Biology)
Amit Roy (Rocky Mountain Labs, NIH)
Vishwesh Venkatraman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Jason McDermott (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Nathan Insel (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Jason Karnes (University of Arizona)