Invited Talks
2014
City University of New York. NY, NY.
Introduction to R Bootcamp.
GNS HealthCare, Cambridge, MA.
Developing Methods for Clinical Microbial Community Studies.
2013
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Genomics Retreat. Cambridge, MA.
Metagenomic inference and biomarker discovery for the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.
The COBRA Group, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Cambridge, MA.
Computational methods for meta'omic analyses: Identifying microbial species and functional roles.
ISMB / ECCB 2013, Research Highlights Track. Berlin, Germany.
Metagenomic inference and biomarker discovery for the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel disease.
Highlighted in http://genomebiology.com/2013/14/8/310/abstract
2012
Computational Genomics Group, Dana-Faber Cancer Institute. Boston, MA.
Surveying 16S rRNA abundance to determine sample selection for follow-up studies.
2011
Cannon Research Center, Carolinas Medical Center. Charlotte, NC.
Ovarian Serous Type I,II Tumor Data Set for Expression and Paracrine Signaling Investigation.
Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, UNC-Charlotte. Charlotte, NC.
Data Mining the Ovarian Tumor Transcriptome.
2010
Queens University, Wingate University. Wingate, NC.
Harnessing the Secrets of Life: How Bioinformatics is Changing Our World.
Awards
2012-2013. International Society for Computational Biology Travel Fellowship
2009-2011. GAANN Scholars Fellowship
2008. TA of the year for the College of Computing and Informatics
2005. Received the Essam El-Kwae award for student-faculty research