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Suzanne J. Matthews

Computational Phylogenetics
Texas A&M University

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I'm a second year Computer Science PhD student at Texas A&M University. I completed my M.S. in Computer Science in May 2008 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and received my B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer in 2006. My research experience is in Computational Biology, particularly High performance Phylogenetic Analysis and Protein Folding.

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I'm a second year PhD student in the department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. My advisor is Dr. Tiffani Williams. Our lab's research focuses on large scale phylogenetic analysis, particularly those dealing with groups of taxa in the thousands.

I was previously a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where I received my B.S. in Computer Science in 2006, and my M.S. in Computer Science in 2008. My Masters thesis work was on the visualization of protein unfolding pathways. You can view my full C.V. here.

As a research assistant, my current research focuses on creating novel algorithms to process large sets of phylogenetic trees. My goal is to design new methods that will be useful in the construction of the Tree of Life.

Computational Phylogenetics is a branch of Computational Biology that studies how different sets of organisms (taxa) are related to one another through the use of algorithmic techniques commonly found in Computer Science, particularly in the areas of Data Mining and Parallel Computing. The overarching goal of this area of research is to determine how exactly sets of organisms are related, and to one day determine the structure of the tree of life.