Education | Ph.D. in Bioinformatics Iowa State University | anticipated in May 2009 |
| M.S. in Computer Science Western Washington University | June 1998 | |
| B.A.in Media Broadcast Studies minor in History Western Washington University
| June 1992 | |
Work Experience | Research Assistant Iowa State University, Ames, IA | Aug. 2006 - present |
| Constructed prototype Boolean network model of rod photoreceptor differentiation from the literature. Investigated methods for effectively integrating heterogeneous high-througput biological data sets to augment this model. | ||
| Asst. Professor of Computer Science Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA | July 1999 - June 2004 | |
| Designed and taught the following courses: Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Programming, Computer Science I & II, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-oriented Design, Computer Languages, Communications and Networking, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, and Theory of Computing. | ||
| Teaching Assistant Washington State University, Pullman, WA | Aug. 1998 - May 1999 | |
| Held weekly help sessions and graded homework for Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall). Graded homework for Software Engineering (Spring). | ||
| Teaching Assistant Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA | Sept. 1997 - June 1998 | |
| Managed the lab portion of an Introduction to Computers course.
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Honors and Awards | NSF-EAPSI Fellow at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008 | |
| Professional Advancement Grant – ISU Graduate College, 2007 | ||
| Associate Award – NSF-IGERT, 2007 | ||
| Travel Grant – ISU BCB (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) program, 2007 | ||
| Mini Grant – USDA-MGET, 2006 | ||
| USDA-MGET Fellow at Iowa State University, 2004-2006.
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Publications | Hecker, L., Alcon, T. (co-first author), Honavar, V. and Greenlee, H. (2008). Querying multiple large-scale gene expression datasets from the developing retina using a seed network to prioritize experimental targets. Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 2, 91-102.
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Posters | Alcon, T., Greenlee, H. and Honavar, V. (2008). Mining the genome for targets of retinal transcription factors. Presented at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB). | |
| Alcon, T., Greenlee, H. and Honavar, V. (2006). Cross-platform comparison of gene expression in murine retina. Presented at the 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB).
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Programming Languages | Proficient in Java and C/C++. Previous experience with ML, Smalltalk, Pascal, Modula-2, FORTRAN and BASIC.
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Foreign Languages | Intermediate knowledge of Spanish. Beginning knowledge of Mandarin. | |