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