Education

• PhD, Cell and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University
• BS Biology and BA Computer Science, Wofford College

Bio

Alissa is an RI Bioinformatics Analyst on the Core Bioinformatics team at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI). She has a wide variety of experiences in bioinformatics, ranging from plants to insects to vertebrates and involving many different types of datasets. Her graduate work focused on coevolution in plant genomes, specifically between the nuclear and chloroplast genomes in angiosperms. As a postdoc at Vanderbilt University and then the University of Minnesota, she studied immune-development pleiotropy in Drosophila species and the effects of polyploidy on frog endocrine systems. At MSI, she conducts a broad range of bioinformatic analyses for groups spanning many fields of biology. She enjoys learning new things about biology and working with researchers to gain insight into their data.