University of Oregon

Lab Members

Julian Catchen Julian is working on methods for analyzing short reads from next generation sequencers and transcriptome analysis. He earned his Ph.D. in CIS in 2009 (co-advised by John Postlethwait), and is currently a postdoc in the Cresko Lab.
Dave Clements Dave is a database administrator and software engineer at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, working from his office in Eugene.
Tom Conlin Tom is working towards his M.S. in CIS, and is also a member of the technical staff at ZFIN.
Victor Hanson-Smith Victor is interested in Bayesian methods for phylogenetic inference, the effect of heterotachy (varying rates of evolutionary change), and ancestral sequence reconstruction. He is a research GTF working with the Thornton Lab.
Alumni
Jeff Blakeslee Jeff's project for his CIS honors thesis (2007) explored ways to use realign, a sequence alignment method based on information theory, for multiple sequence alignments. He is currently working for the Federal Government.
Ted Cornforth Ted's M.S. project (2009) analyzed the effects of different parameters on the accuracy of assembly algorithms for short-read sequence data. He is currently a Ph.D. student in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell.
Nathan Dunn Nathan earned his Ph.D. in CIS in 2006 (co-advised by Shawn Lockery), developing methods for detecting motifs in neural network models, with an application toward understanding chemotaxis in C. elegans. He is currently employed at ZFIN in Eugene.
Ryan Kersh Ryan completed his M.S. project in 2009 working on a system that analyzes images of Drosophila larvae to help understand which neurons play a role in locomotion. He is currently a software developer for IBM in Eugene.
Bryan Kolaczkowski Bryan earned his Ph.D. in CIS in 2006 (co-advised by Joe Thornton), developing new methods for phylogenetic inference that take into account evolutionary heterogeneity. He worked as a postdoc at UC Berkeley and Dartmouth, and will be starting a tenure track faculty position at the University of Florida in 2011.
Heather May Heather graduated with a B.S. in CIS in 2002. Her senior honors thesis (co-advised by Dan Udovic) was on a framework for building individual-based models for ecosystems modeling. She currently works for the US Forest Service.
Peiran Song Peiran's M.S. project in 2002 was on alternative strategies for storing sequence alignment results in a relational database. She worked at ZFIN until 2008, then moved to a job as a database administrator in the San Francisco area.
John St. John John graduated with a B.S. in CIS in 2009. He wrote his CIS Honors Thesis on the an analysis of various phylogenetic inference methods, using simulated evolution to generate the data sets. He is now working toward his Ph.D. at U.C. Santa Cruz.