Bioinformatics Data Wrangler @ Computercraft; former assistant research professor working with Dassanayake lab.@LSU. I studied plant comparative genomics, especially for those found in “extreme” environments a.k.a. extremophytes.
2022-05-02: The pandemic-long collaboration, studying a fascinating innovation in extremophyte root growth strategy under stress, was published in Nat Plants. I focused on providing a framework for comparative DAP- and RNA-seq analyses (see short tweetorial).
2022-01-10: I presented Phylogenetically informed Profiling (PiP), an attempt to identify functions with lineage(s)-specific GRN modifications, at the “virtual” Plant & Animal Genome Conference (PAGXXIX), Arabidopsis Informatics workshop (see re-recorded talk).
2021-11-28: The first draft genome of Phragmites australis (common reed) was published in Mol Ecol :) Fun collaboration with researchers from Tulane Univ. and USGS. Next: chromosome-level assemblies of both native and invasive (in North America) subspecies and more comparative genomics of Phragmites invasion.