My name is Holly Basta, and I am an undergraduate researcher in the McClure Bioinformatics Lab at Montana State University, Bozeman. 

My research is on Retroid agents (retroviruses, retrotransposons, retroposons, etc.) in the following organisms: pufferfish, zebrafish, fruit fly, mosquito, honeybee, malaria parasite, slime mold, and nematode.  I have also recently been funded to study the replication/transcription complex of viruses of the order Mononegavirales (measles, mumps, rabies, Ebola, etc.) using protein disorder prediction methods. 

I am from Great Falls, Montana, and I plan to earn a PhD in Virology.