About me
I am a molecular biologist originally from central Wisconsin. I earned a B.S. in Biology from University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point and an M.A. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from University of Kansas. I joined the USGS in 2013 to work on developing methods for using environmental DNA (eDNA) to track aquatic invasive species and more recently developing genetic control tools to get rid of invasive species. In my role as a principle investigator, I am interested in IMT solutions for high-throughput sequencing and handling large data sets with high-throughput computing. We generate large amounts of data with our Illumina NextSeq 2000, and processing / analyzing that data is a challenge. Illumina has a lot of resources that we would like to tap into that would greatly increase our efficiency and throughput capacity.
