Early Spring Edition: From Sun to Snow
We are now well into the New Year, and I’ve spent a fair amount of it on the road. Here’s an update:
- I got out of the Pacific Northwest gray winter and headed south to California, where I spent nearly a month working remotely. Work was interspersed with rainbow-filled short hikes around the central coast.
Morro Bay
Harmony Headlands
Montana de Oro Beach
Los OsosI was also at the Polar Bear Plunge in Cayucos, CA (as an observer, obviously).
- During my time in California, I had a quick trip to visit biology and CS faculty at Harvey Mudd College. I then drove up north to Portland, stopping in San Fransisco & the Shasta Lake caverns for some sightseeing.
Pier 39
Pier 39
Shasta Lake Caverns
Shasta Lake Caverns - I returned to a bunch of research projects in full swing. My postdoc’s BIBM 2018 paper on localized PathLinker was invited to be in a special issue of BMC Systems Biology. The differential privacy crew (led by computer scientist Adam Groce and statistician Andrew Bray) had a paper on differentially private ANOVA officially accepted to PETS. We also submitted a paper (with a former student as first author) on signaling pathway connectivity using directed hypergraphs. I also started some brand-new collaborations with Layla Oesper at Carleton College, and wrapped up a project with Ali Bashir at the Icahn School of Medicine and Mt. Sinai.
Minneapolis, MN
- I then flew to Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, where I gave a talk on signaling pathway analysis and caught up with colleagues and good friends Catie Welsh in Computer Science and Dan Blustein in Neuroscience.
- Finally, I trekked to snowy Minneapolis, MN, for the 50th SIGCSE conference, where I saw colleagues from undergrad, grad school, and the Pacific Northwest. What a great meeting – it was worth the cold.
Here’s hoping for warm weather soon.
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