PI Dr. Todd J. Treangen Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science (primary), Bioengineering, Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice University Senior Personnel Dr. Austin Marshall NLM BMI postdoctoral fellow interested in applying novel bioinformatic practices to microbiome studies Dr. Michael Nute Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science, Rice University R. Matt Barnett Software Engineer Graduate Students Rossie Luo 2nd Year Ph.D. student, SSPB, multiple genome alignment and genotype-to-phenotype analysis Ryan Doughty 2nd Year Compter Science Ph.D. student, interested in string algorithms, metagenomics, and virome analysis. Dongwei Li 2nd Year Ph.D. student, interested in machine learning and computational biology. Felix Quintana 4th Year Ph.D. student interested in protein clustering, function prediction, and model assessment. Natalie Kokroko 3rd Year Computer Science Ph.D. student, interested in microbiome analysis and metagenomics. Eddy Huang 3rd Year Ph.D. student, interested in Microbiome Analysis, Metagenomics Database, High Performance Computing, and Deep Learning Undergraduate Students Alumni Anika Patel Graduate Student (Rice CS) Dr. Bryce Kille Bioinformatics Scientist @ Illumina, big fan all things sequence analysis, high-performance computing, and discrete algorithms. Dr. Michael X. Wang PostDoc, Rice University. Lead developer of Olivar.