Teaching
Full Curriculum VitaeCourses
- Bio131
- Introduction to Computational Biology (Final Projects)
- Offered approximately once per year
- Bio221
- Introduction to Scientific Literature and Discourse (w/ Derek Applewhite)
- Fall 2019
- Bio331
- Computational Systems Biology (Final Projects)
- Offered approximately once per year
- Bio431
- Computational Cancer Biology
- 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
- Introduction to Computation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 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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