IGERT “Snake Fungus” Project Published

During the IGERT problems course in 2012 our project was to analyze and annotate a newly discovered and sequenced snake fungal pathogen, Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola. At the time we just called it the “snake fungus”. Recently, thanks to the the hard work of Manna Ohkura and her PhD advisor Marc Orbach, we published our results in ASM’s Genome Announcements.  The full list of co-authors and a link to the open access paper can be found on the Publications page.

REU Reunion @ UCF

11 years ago this summer I participated in an Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Computer Vision at UCF. This summer marks the 30th time they conducted the program (which is an impressive feat to be able to get 30 years a funding from the NSF). To celebrate they are having a one day event at UCF on 18 July. The REU in 2006 was my first experience with research, and while my interests didn’t lie in computer vision, and it was my first step to my current career path. I am excited to go back to UCF to participate in this celebration.

Event page: here

Core Columns Paper Accepted to AMB

The journal version of my WABI paper has been accepted for publication in the Algorithms for Molecular Biology journal and will appear there soon. This extended version includes many of the algorithmic details that were left out of the original paper WABI publication as well as an expanded results section.  A pre-publication version of the submission is available on my Publications page.