Current lab members:
Travis Wheeler, PI
Department of Computer Science (Associate Professor)
Cellular, Molecular, and Microbial Biology (Associated Faculty)
LBNL / Joint Genome Institute (Affiliate)
BS, Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1995
PhD, Computer Science, University of Arizona, 2009
Postdoctorate Sean Eddy, HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, 2009-2014
Email:
Curriculum Vitae: pdf
Google Scholar profile
32 Campus Dr
University of Montana
Social Sciences Bldg. Room 420
Missoula, MT 59812
Telephone: 520-907-1181
Alex Nord
2015-
PhD student
CMMB
BA, Philosophy, Reed College
Research: Splice sites in translated sequence alignment, fast seed search, multiple sequence alignment
Tim Anderson
2017-
PhD Student
Computer Science
BS, Computer Science, University of Montana
Research: FPGA algorithms for sequence alignment; optimized FM index; Custom data logging systems
Genevieve Krause
2016-
Masters student
Computer Science
BS, Environmental Studies, Prescott College
Research: Pseudogene detection; frameshift model for sequence alignment
Daniel Olson
2016-
Masters Student
Computer Science
BS, Biochem, University of Montana
Research: Models for repetitive biological sequences; adaptive element detection in sequence data
Kaitlin Carey
2017-
Masters student
Computer Science
BS, Biochem, University of Montana
Research: Adjudication of candidate annotations; specifically Transposable Element subfamily annotation
Jack Roddy
2017-
Masters Student (previously undergraduate researcher)
Computer Science
BS, Computer Science, University of Montana
Research: Sequence Alignment - homologous overextension; Dfam infrastructure
Sarah Walling
2017-
Master student (was undergraduate researcher)
Computer Science
BS, Computer Science, University of Montana
Research: Expression patterns of dual-coding exons
David Rich
2018-
Masters student
Computer Science
BS, Business Administration, University of Montana
Research: pruned dynamic programming w/ profile HMMs
Anna Marbut
2019-
Graduate Researcher
BA, Linguistics, Reed College
MA, Business Analytics, University of Montana
Research: Recommendation engines (ML and NLP)
Max Copeland
2019-
Masters Student
Computer Science
BS, Physics, University of Missouri
Research: Computational neuroscience
Jeremiah Gaiser
2017-
Undergraduate researcher
Biochemistry
Research: Conserved non-coding sequence; Protein interaction networks
Conner Copeland
2017-
Undergraduate researcher (joint with Pat Secor)
Computer Science
Research: Prophage annotation
Isaac Robinson
2019-
Undergraduate researcher (joint with Nathan Insel)
Computer Science
Research: Tracking and behavior classification in rodent videos
Dylan Wichman
2019-
High School student - Billings Central High School
Research: Machine Learning approaches to Wildfire Risk Prediction
