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Teaching

Full Curriculum Vitae

Courses

Bio131
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Offered approximately once per year
Bio221
Introduction to Scientific Literature and Discourse (w/ Derek Applewhite)
Fall 2019
Bio331
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Offered approximately once per year
Bio431
One Bio431 offered approximately once per year
Bio431
The Genetics and Cell Biology of Cancer (w/ Derek Applewhite)
One Bio431 offered approximately once per year
CS0931
Brown University Course, Spring 2012

Guest Lectures

Biology Lectures
Topics in Biology (BIO102) - approximately one lecture per year
Cellular Biology (BIO372) - approximately one lecture per year
CS/Math Lectures
Computational Biology, Carleton College (CS362) - Fall 2021
Computer Science Fundamentals (CSCI121) - Fall 2020
Algorithms, Carleton College (CS252) - Spring 2020
Module at Computational Biology Workshop, Carleton College - Fall 2018
Statistical Learning (Math243) - Spring 2016
Prior to Reed
Hypergraph Algorithms and Applications, Virginia Tech (CS6824) - Spring 2014
Data and Algorithm Analysis, Virginia Tech (CS4104) - Spring 2014
Computational Thinking, Virginia Tech (CS6604) - Fall 2013
Introduction to Computation for the Humanities and Social Science, Brown University (CS0931) - Fall 2011
Topics in Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, and Cancer, Brown University (CS2950-C) - Fall 2011

Thesis Students

2022-2023
Frank Zhuang: In progress
2021-2022
Ananke Krishnan: Impacts of Backyard Habitat Creation for Birds at Single-Yard and City-Wide Scales
Ingrid Zoll: Tree Health from Space: Modeling Urban Tree Health using Multispectral Satellite Imagery in Portland, OR
2020-2021
Delaney Brubaker: Can we build a framework for the future of sustainable agriculture knowledge?
Tayla Isensee: Sex-biased conserved gene calling expansion with orthogroups
Jiarong Li: Complex network comparison using graphlets
Hannah Meier: Phytoplankton on the Go! Understanding the effect of thermal acclimation on the movement strategies of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Aryeh Stahl: A generalized approach to graph de-anonymization
2019-2020
Madeline Doak: Sex-Biased Gene Expression in the Brain Conserved Among Taxa.
Gabe Preising: A Computational Network Approach to Examine Biological Crosstalk during Mouthbrooding in the Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni
Sol Taylor-Brill: Computationally Analyzing the Effect of Cannabidiol on Enterohemorrhagic E. coli using Transcriptomic Data
2018-2019
Miriam Bern: A Comparison of Two Methods for Identifying Alternative Splicing in Diploid and Tetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana Strains
Alex King: Multi-omic Analysis of Genetically Induced Conditions
Amy Rose Lazarte: Just Keep Swimming: Resolving the Patterns and Dynamics of Body Temperature in Freshwater Phytoplankton
Ananthan Nambiar: Computing the Language of Life
2017-2018
Petra Wijngaard: How Cytoscouts Got Shot Out of Dr. Ritz's New Interactome
2016-2017
Moira Differding: Your Microbes are Super Models: Using Microbiome Data to Reproducibly Predict Crohn's Disease
Nick Franzese: Examining the Practicality of Shortest Hyperpaths for Signaling Pathway Analysis: The Cheating Hyperpath Algorithm as an Alternative Approach
2015-2016
Nicole Ezell: Pathway Models of Signal Dysregulation in Schizophrenia
Heather Milne: Identification of Transposable Element Subfamilies using a Phylogenetic Network Approach
Barney Potter: Prize-Collecting Steiner Trees in Directed Signaling Hypergraphs

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Contact

Biology Department
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3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202-8199

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CV icon Curriculum Vitae [pdf]



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