Shawn ONeil

oneils [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-0018

My bioinformatics research has focused on haplotype assembly from short read fragments and de-novo transcriptome assembly assessment. I also study the unique effects of climate change on individual insect populations.

Recent Highlights

An article about cat training, featuring mentions of our kitties Sterling and Bojangles: Building the Bond Between Cats and People
Our Bioinformatics Users' Group (BUG) got some coverage in the The Scientist: Learning Bioinformatics
An old project published after much work: Newsvendor problems with demand shocks and unknown demand distributions
Rstackdeque published in the R journal: Implementing Persistent O(1) Stacks and Queues in R
Collaborative project recently published: Two Theobroma cacao genotypes with contrasting pathogen tolerance show aberrant transcriptional and ROS responses after salicylic acid treatment

At OSU

Affiliated with:

Enviro / Molecular Toxic

Career Links:

Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology

Courses Taught:

I'm running the summer teaching portion of Data Science for the Public Good.

Biography

I am currently an Assistant Professor (Senior Research) in the Dept. of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology and Data Engineer for the TISLab at Oregon State University. Most recently I was a Senior Faculty Research Assistant at the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing at Oregon State University.

Other things I find interesting include art (wood, glass, and digital media). I have a fondness for mathematical logic, certain areas of philosophy, hiking, martial arts, electronics, nerf blasters, and programming. Feel free to visit my actual homepage for more.

Professional Accomplishments

Education:

I earned my Ph.D. in May of 2012 from the University of Notre Dame, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and my Bachelors in Computer Science from Northern Michigan University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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