"Science is a lot like an onion: you discover truth with each new layer, and you cry throughout the whole process."
My most substantial research projects have been at the Institute for Systems Biology. Here I use a variety of computational approaches to better understand the biology of Halobacterium, an extremophilic archaeon (peer-reviewed papers below).
My capstone project in ecology used multi-model inference to predict the spread of an invasive rodent in Seattle (Myocastor coypus, common names coypu and nutria), visualizing the results in GIS. This work was funded by the Wildlife Society, and was covered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Daily, the UW student newspaper.
I came to the University of Washington to study Computer Science. There I also worked as a programmer for the medical library and as a sysadmin to pay for tuition. I came to realize that I was more interested in biological processes than electronic ones and instead pursued ecology and physiology simultaneously. I graduated in 2007 with two B.S.'s in these areas.
I have a secondary interest in public health and have been involved with research on cancer among Native American populations at the Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research.
Publications
- Koide, T., Reiss, D.J., Bare, C.J., Pang, W.L., Facciotti, M.T., Schmid, A.K., Pan, M., Marzolf, B., Van, P.T., Lo, F-Y, Deutsch, E., Peterson, A., Martin, D., and Baliga, N.S. Prevalence of transcription promoters within archaeal operons and coding sequences. Molecular Systems Biology. 5:285 2009
- Van, P.T., Schmid, A.K., King, N.L., Kaur, A., Pan, M., Whitehead, K., Koide, T., Facciotti, M., Deutsch, E., Reiss, D., Mallick, P. and Baliga, N. Halobacterium salinarum NRC-1 PeptideAtlas: strategies for targeted proteomics. Journal of Proteome Research. 7(9):3755-3764 2008 [PubMed: 18652504]
- Schmid, A.K., Reiss, D.J., Kaur, A., Pan, M., King, N., Van, P.T., Hohmann, L., Martin, D.B., and Baliga, N.S. Anatomy of microbial cell state transitions in response to oxygen. Genome Research. 17(10):1399-413. 2007 [PubMed: 17785531]
