Trainees

Benton Anderson’s research will focus on robust, integrative analyses of high-dimensional datasets: the Smart Toilet.

Dr. Mele Avilla’s research aims to provide an unbiased approach to assess the singular effects of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure on sex, age, body mass index (BMI), and to other PFAS using serum data from CDC National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2011-2012 cohort.

Dr. Aubrey Barnard’s postdoctoral research is focused on discovery of environmental exposures that protect against allergic diseases.

Dr. Nathan Bollig’s research will focus on applications of machine learning to problems affecting animal and human health.

Jay Cheng’s research will focus on development of statistical learning methods for clinical and biomedical research.

Dr. Chase Clark’s research focuses on bioinformatics analysis of specialized metabolites and the diversity of specialized metabolism across sequenced genomes.

Benjamin Kaufman is a first year graduate student in the new PhD Program in Biomedical Data Science.

Parth Khatri is doing research rotations in the Biomedical Data Science PhD program.

Saniya Khullar’s research is using machine learning to help uncover molecular and cellular causes for human neurodegenerative, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Da-Inn Lee’s research focus is structure-driven machine learning for 3D genome organization.

Dr. Robert Millikin’s research focus is identification of novel drug targets by integrating quantitative transcriptomics data with text mining.

Dr. Mehdi Momen’s research focus is identification of Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) rupture variants and pathways that are shared between humans and dogs and confirm the relevance of dog therapeutic targets for human ACL rupture patients

Dr. Joni Sedillo’s research focuses on investigation of the role epigenetic inheritance plays in human inherited diseases.

Dr. Margaret Thairu’s research is focused on association of toxin exposure, the microbiome, meditation, and well-being.

Dr. Jeremiah Yee’s research will focus on generating a conceptual model of gene-environment interactions related to asthma, as well as development of computational approaches to exposure assessments. . .