Bio
Ryan McLaughlin is a PhD Candidate in the Bioinformatics program. He has a B.S. in Biophysics and M.S in Biology with focus on bioinfirmatics algorithm development. His research focuses on building software tools for integrating data produced by culture-free methods and how these hybrid data-types can be leveraged to resolve the emergent metabolic potential of ecosystems from the population- to the community-levels of organization.