R. Keith Slotkin

The Slotkin laboratory uses Arabidopsis thaliana, a reference flowering plant, as a model to investigate how eukaryotic cells repress transposable elements. Transposable elements are fragments of DNA that can duplicate or move from one location to another. Their ability to…

Eileen Avery

Eileen Avery’s research interests are centered on health disparities, social demography, crime and social control as public health concerns, and survey methodology. The importance of space and place is an overlapping focus across these interests. Past work examined the ways…

Jonathan B. Mitchem

Dr. Mitchem received his MD from The Ohio State University and subsequently did general surgery residency at Washington University in St. Louis and a fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at The Lahey Clinic in Boston, MA. During his time…

Iuliia (Yilia) Innokenteva

Yulia is a fifth-year PhD student in bioinformatics at the University of Missouri, Columbia. With a strong background in health informatics and a Master of Public Health degree from MU, Yulia brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to her research. Her…

Nishant Jain

My current research focus is in the field of Consumer Health Informatics and Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). My work revolves around leveraging social media analytics, social network analysis, and innovative informatics approaches to gain insights into chronic diseases (e.g.,…

Justin Hummel

Justin is a graduate student at the University of Missouri Institute for Data Science and Informatics (MUIDSI) under the guidance of Rene Cortese, PhD. Justin has learned critical informatics techniques to expand his training in cancer biology.  His primary research…

William Baskett

I am a PhD student studying bioinformatics. I received my bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Missouri in 2018 and my masters in data science in 2021. My research focuses on developing algorithms to extract information from biomedical…

James Keller

James M. Keller is a Curators Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri as well as R. L. Tatum Professor for the college. Keller’s research interests are in computational intelligence with current applications…

Suchithra Rajendran

Dr. Suchithra Rajendran is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering and the Marketing department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to that, she served as a consultant for many private…