Dr. Rakesh Kaundal
Department of Plants, Soils and Climate
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics
Center for Integrated BioSystems
(College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences)
Director, Bioinformatics Facility
Department of Computer Science
(College of Science)
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Biography
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Highly successful track record of integrating biology and bigdata analytics with over 14 years’ experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, and scientific programming. In-depth knowledge of bioinformatics data analysis tools and databases, information management, and integration to support diverse activities essential for organismal improvement and genomics-enabled studies.
Research Interests
Next-generation sequencing data (analysis, alignment, assembly, annotation); Computational modeling of -omics big data; Systems biology, develop algorithms to study intra- and inter-species interaction networks (e.g. host-pathogen interactions), predict Gene Regulatory Networks; Metagenomics (e.g. rhizosphere microbiome interacting with the host); Computational genomics. Develop workflows to facilitate data mining; Develop and maintain scientific software/tools.
Rousselene B. Larson
Bioinformatics Scientist
Rousselene Larson is a researcher at Utah State University with expertise in Bioinformatics. She works collaboratively with interdisciplinary scholars to comprehend research objectives and provide informatics solutions to projects involving NGS data analysis. She is proficient in Unix/Linux shell scripting, R, Python, Perl, and a range of bioinformatics tools/packages. Her sequence analysis comprises of genome assembly, RNA-seq, Bisulfite_seq, and SNP analysis.
Naveen Duhan
PhD Student | PSC
Raghav Kataria
PhD Student | PSC
Raghav is a PhD scholar from India. He worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU, India) before joining the KAABiL. With a research focus on bioinformatics, he is currently working on pathogen-host protein-protein interactions using computational tools and various molecular biology techniques.
David Guevara
PhD Student | CS
David is a CS PhD student from Colombia. He worked full-time as a full-stack software developer for 6 years while finishing his bachelor's degree in Software and Computer Engineering and got a MSc. degree in Computational Biology. His interests are software development, database administration, machine learning, and deep learning. He likes soccer, videogames, and playing music.
Shelby McCowan
HPC Administrator | BSc Biochemistry
Shelby is a Biochemistry major who aspires to go into software engineering. He has worked with mobile apps, websites (including the front and back end), and desktop applications. He is a percussionist in his spare time.
Kolton Hauck
BSc Biological Engineering
Kolton is a Biological Engineering major and is working on a minor in Computer Science. He wants to use computers to solve modern-day biological problems. He enjoys eating, sleeping and working out.
Andrew Jouffray
BSc Computer Science
Andrew Jouffray is a computer science student and software developer. He currently works on developing a method to create datasets for deep learning image recognition tasks, enabling robots to generate their own training data.