Projects

Selected bioinformatics, microbiome, viromics, and data science projects.

Each project page describes the scientific problem, my specific role, methods, and current status. Work I led is distinguished from collaborative or ongoing (unpublished) work; confidential or collaborator-owned results are generalized or omitted.

BATS Diel Virome

Environmental Research

Machine Learning

A sub-daily marine viral metagenomic time series at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series site.

Vaginal Microbiome in Pregnancy and HIV

Biomedical Research

16S-based meta-analysis of the vaginal microbiome in pregnant people living with HIV.

CRESSENT

Bioinformatics Software

Environmental Research

A modular bioinformatics toolkit for annotation and analysis of CRESS DNA viruses.

Cyberinfrastructure & Training

HPC and Workflows

Bioinformatics Software

Modernizing and documenting bioinformatics applications on CyVerse, ACCESS, and Tapis-backed HPC.

VirION3

Bioinformatics Software

HPC and Workflows

A hybrid long- and short-read workflow for viromics using Nanopore, PacBio, and Illumina data.

Pig Burn Wound Microbiome

Biomedical Research

HPC and Workflows

Metagenomic bioinformatics workflow for a pig burn-wound infection model.

Spinal Cord Injury Microbiome & Virome

Biomedical Research

Longitudinal microbiome, virome, and phage-host dynamics following spinal cord injury.

Statistics and Data Analysis — MBA

Machine Learning

Data Visualization

Applied statistics and machine learning coursework/thesis applying data-driven methods to environmental ecology questions.

Macquarie Harbour Microbial Ecology

Environmental Research

Machine Learning

Data Visualization

PhD research on marine microbial ecology along environmental gradients in a stratified Tasmanian estuary.