Participants

Person Lab PositionInterests
Prof. David Ardell ArdellProfessorThe coevolution of gene expression mechanisms and genomes; The RNAs and proteins of translation
Prof. Carolin Frank FrankProfessorGenomes of symbionts, mutualism, mobile genetic elements, comparative genomics, metagenomics
Prof. Monica Medina  MedinaProfessorFunctional genomics of corals and coral symbionts, biology of stress
Julie Phillips  ArdellGrad StudentSurvivorship, aging and stress, genomic and proteomic data
Katherine Harris ArdellGrad StudentMolecular evolution, ancestral sequence reconstruction, DNA analysis, tests of selection, maximum likelihood methods, Bayesian methods
Josh Phillips ColvinGrad Student Protein structure and function, biophysical models, machine learning
Ronna Mallios OjciusGrad Student Bacterial promoters, DNA topology, Hidden Markov models, Multivariate statistics
Shini Sunagawa MedinaGrad StudentFunctional genomics of corals and coral symbionts
Dr. Chris Voolstra MedinaPost-docSymbiosis, Evolution of gene expression, adaptation, speciation, evolutionary and ecological genomics
Emily Wilson        
 FrankGrad Student
Mobile genetic elements in alpha-proteobacteria
Alyssa Carroll
 FrankGrad Student
Microbial communities; environmental genomics
Bishoy Kamel
 MedinaGrad Student
Computational biology of biomineralization
Collin Closek
 MedinaGrad Student
Functional genomics of corals and coral symbionts
Ariel Berwaldt
 Undergraduate