SPENCER KRIEGER

Department of Computer Science
University of Arizona
Email: skrieger@email.arizona.edu
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About

I am a second year PhD student at the University of Arizona. My interests include algorithms in bioinformatics and computational biology. I am currently a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. John Kececioglu.

I received a B.S. in Biochemistry from Brigham Young University in Provo.

Research Projects

Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Nearest Neighbor Search - Using nearest neighbor search and other post-processing steps, we can quickly predict secondary structure of a protein using only the amino acid sequence.

Modeling Cell Signaling Pathways as Hypergraphs - We are using a more powerful modeling tool for cell-signaling pathways called hypergraphs, which will give us a better way to find alternative pathways in disease progression