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