Dr. Rakesh Kaundal
Department of Plants, Soils and Climate
Associate Professor, Bioinformatics
Center for Integrated BioSystems
(College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences)
Director, Bioinformatics Facility
Department of Computer Science
(College of Science)
Adjunct Associate 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.
Matthew Lister
HPC Administrator | CS
Matthew is the systems administrator of the high performance cluster for the bioinformatics group. A passionate Linux enthusiast, his work includes bioinformatics programming and teaching Linux to new users. Matthew is starting an MS in Computer Science this spring and hopes to add a Master's in statistics to his plan of study.
Austin Swainston
HPC Administrator | Technology Systems
Austin is a systems administrator of the high performance cluster for the bioinformatics group. He enjoys anything IT especially Linux. Here to assist with any technology needs at the lab. He recently graduated at USU with a BS in Technology Systems and works full-time at the Space Dynamics Laboratory.
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.
Brady Christianson
PhD Student | PSC
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.