Current lab members:

Travis Wheeler, PI Department of Computer Science (Assistant 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, multiple sequence alignment

Daniel Olson 2016- PhD Student Computer Science BS, Biochem, Umiversity of Montana Research: Models for repetitive biological sequences; accelerated profile HMM search

Tim Anderson 2017- PhD Student Computer Science BS, Computer Science, Umiversity of Montana Research: Custom data logging systems; FPGA algorithms for sequence alignment

Genevieve Krause 2016- Masters student Computer Science BS, Environmental Studies, Prescott College Research: Pseudogene detection; frameshift model for sequence alignment

Adam Clemons 2017- Masters Student Computer Science BS, Computer Science, Umiversity of Montana Research: Software plagiarism

Kaitlin Carey 2017- Masters student Computer Science BS, Biochem, Umiversity of Montana Research: Improved methods for Transposable Element subfamily annotation; Validation and characterization of protein splicing oddities

David Rich 2018- Masters student Computer Science Research: profile HMM indexing, pruned dynamic programming

Jeremiah Gaiser 2017- Undergraduate researcher (joint with Mark Grimes) Biochemistry Research: Protein interaction networks, profile HMM indexing

Jack Roddy 2017- Undergraduate researcher Computer Science Research: Dfam infrastructure, Sequence Alignment - homologous overextension

Conner Copeland 2017- Undergraduate researcher Computer Science Research: Phylogeny inference, phage annotation

Sarah Walling 2017- Undergraduate researcher Computer Science Research: Validation and characterization of protein splicing oddities

Lab Alumni:

Bill Arndt 2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow (Joint with Kjiersten Fagnan at JGI/NERSC) BS, PhD, Computer Science, University of South Carolina Research: HPC optimization of Bioinformatics applications Next step: Postdoc at NERSC

Walt Shands 2014-2017 BS, MS, Computer Science, Columbia University MBA, Santa Clara University Research: Translated search in HMMER. Next step: Software Developer, Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz

Angela Gross 2015-2016 Masters student Computer Science Moved to software developer position at FAST enterprises Research: Video game optimization (particle system / rendering)

Gilia Patterson 2015-2017 Undergraduate and Post-baccalaureate Biology/Math Research: Transposable element annotation. Next step: Graduate studies in the Oregon State Statistics Dept

Michel Wan Der Maas Soares 2015-2017 Undergraduate researcher Computer Science Summer internship at NERSC (LBNL) Completed degree at Universidade Federal de Lavras (Brazil) Research: Fast phylogeny inference

Joyce Liu 2015-2018 High School student - Sentinel High School (Missoula) Advanced Problems in Science program Research: Sequence alignment guide trees and quality assessment