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, 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

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

Kaitlin Carey 2017- Masters student Computer Science BS, Biochem, Umiversity 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, Umiversity of Montana Research: Sequence Alignment - homologous overextension; Dfam infrastructure

Sarah Walling 2017- Master student (was undergraduate researcher) Computer Science BS, Computer Science, Umiversity of Montana Research: Expression patterns of dual-coding exons

David Rich 2018- Masters student Computer Science BS, Business Administration, Umiversity 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

Lab Alumni:

Adam Clemons 2017-2019 Masters Student Computer Science BS, Computer Science, Umiversity of Montana Research: Software plagiarism

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

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

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

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

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