Software

I'm currently a graduate student at Penn State University working on my PhD in
biology under Dr. Jim Marden. My educational background is in both genetics and
philosophy. I've decided to pursue the 'harder' side of my scholarly interests, but I
still enjoy reading various philosophical works related to biology, evolution, and the
mind, such as the books by David Chalmers and Daniel Dennett (website links).
My current interests fall under the broad biological categories of molecular
genetics and bioinformatics. More specifically, I'm interested in genes related to
organismal variation and the mechanisms that propagate this variation through
evolutionary time. One of my favorite mechanisms is alternative splicing, the
process by which a single gene can be transcribed into multiple mRNA.

>I've added our M. cinxia transcriptome project to the
projects page. There you can find our publication, the
popular news and views article on our work, and more.

>10-30-08: I've added two more scripts to the software
page, SmartScreener and QualMod. I've also added a
sequence page to the website, accessible through the
projects page and here.