{"id":11,"date":"2017-07-03T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T23:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-07-04T19:19:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T02:19:29","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the CompBio Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The CompBio group includes students and faculty from biology, computer science, and mathematics from Reed College<\/a>, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon.  It is led by Dr. Anna Ritz<\/a>, a computer scientist and Associate Professor of Biology at Reed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blog Contributors<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Miriam Bern ’19 – Biology Major
Alexander King ’19 – Neuroscience Major
Amy Rose Lazarte ’19 – Alt. Biology Major (with Computer Science)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sol Taylor-Brill ’20 – Biology Major
Kat Thompson ’20 – Computer Science Major
Gabe Preising ’20 – Biology Major
Maham Zia ’20 – Physics Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jiarong Li ’21 – Math\/Computer Science Major
Tayla Isensee ’21 – Biology Major
Usman Hafeez ’21 – Computer Science Major
Aryeh Stahl ’21 – Computer Science Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tunc Kose ’22 -Computer Science Major
Alex Richter ’22 – Computer Science Major

Larry Zeng ’23 – Computer Science \/ Math Major
Max Bennett ’23 – Neuroscience Major
Hannah Kuder ’23 – Math \/ Physics Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nina Young ’24 – Computer Science \/ Art Major
Henry Jacques ’24 – Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lixing Yi ’25 – Mathematics Major<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faculty Collaborators<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The projects described on this post are related to other faculty research in the Biology Department at Reed College. Dr. Derek Applewhite<\/a> is a cell biologist who studies cell morphology (Dr. Ritz and Dr. Applewhite also have an NSF RUI grant<\/a> to study cell contractility). Dr. Kara Cerveny<\/a> is a developmental biologist who studies retina development. Dr. Sam Fey<\/a> is a community ecologist that studies aquatic ecosystems. Dr. Shivani Ahuja<\/a> is a biochemist who studies metal ion transport. Other blog posts may mention research by neurobiologist Dr. Erik Zornik<\/a>, behavioral neuroscientist Dr. Suzy Renn<\/a>, computer scientist Dr. Mark Hopkins<\/a>, and computer scientist Dr. Anthony Gitter<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Derek Applewhite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Kara Cerveny<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Sam Fey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Erik Zornik<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Suzy Renn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Mark Hopkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Shivani Ahuja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Funding Sources<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

The contributors of this blog are supported by different funding sources.  Refer to Dr. Ritz’s website<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Collaborative Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)<\/h5>\n

This blog grew out of a weekly journal as part of a collaborative REU<\/a>  with Dr. Derek Applewhite<\/strong> and students Alex King<\/strong> & Miriam Bern<\/strong>.  The REU was sponsored by the Computing Research Association Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research (CRA-W<\/a>), in collaboration with the iAAMCS<\/a> AYUR program.  Both CREU and iAAMCS are funded by the National Science Foundation<\/a>.  <\/p>\n

M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust College Research Program for the Natural Sciences (2016-2019)<\/h5>\n

This project supported undergraduate summer researchers to computationally study dysregulated signaling in colorectal cancer.  <\/p>\n

National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2018-2023)<\/h5>\n

Many projects fall under Dr. Ritz’s NSF grant Network-Based Signaling Pathway Analysis: Methods and Tools for Turning Theory into Practice<\/em><\/a>. This project aims to expand network-based modeling to analyzing signaling pathways in disease and non-human systems.  The grant also has a major aim that builds on hypergraph theory as an alternative representation to network-based methods. <\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CompBio group includes students and faculty from biology, computer science, and mathematics from Reed College, a liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon.  It is led by Dr. Anna Ritz, a computer scientist and Associate Professor of Biology at Reed. Blog Contributors Miriam Bern ’19 – Biology MajorAlexander King ’19 – Neuroscience MajorAmy Rose Lazarte … Continue reading “About the CompBio Group”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1584,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/compbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}