Education:
- Washington University in St. Louis
- D.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, December 2004
- • Adviser: Sean R. Eddy
- • Dissertation: “Stochastic Context-Free Grammars for RNA Secondary
- Structure Prediction”
- M.S. Computer Science, May 2001
- • Advisers: Lincoln Stein, Sean R. Eddy, Michael R. Brent
- • Project: “A Distributed Annotation System” (Technical Report wucs-01-07)
- Texas A&M University
- B.S. Computer Engineering, May 1997
- B.S. Genetics, May 1997
- • Honors Thesis: “A Graphical User Interface for Contig Mapping”
- • Cum Laude, University Honors, Foundation Honors, Engineering Scholar
- • University Undergraduate Research Fellow (Best Presentation Award)
Awards and Honors:
Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Medical Scientist Fellow, 2005
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer T. Olin Fellowship, 2002-2004
Association of Women Faculty Graduate Student Award, 1999
Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellowship, 1997-2002
National Science Foundation Fellowship (declined), 1997
Selected Publications:
Gerber, GK, Dowell, RD, Jaakkola, TS, and Gifford, DK
(2007).
Automated discovery of functional generality of human gene expression programs.
PLoS Comput Biol, 3(8):e148.
Odom, DT, Dowell, RD, Jacobsen, ES, Gordon, W, Danford, TW, MacIsaac,
KD, Rolfe, PA, Conboy, CM, Gifford, DK, and Fraenkel, E (2007).
Tissue-specific transcriptional regulation has diverged significantly between human and mouse.
Nat Genet, 39(6):730-2.
Dowell, RD and Eddy, SR
(2006).
Efficient pairwise RNA structure prediction and alignment using sequence alignment constraints.
BMC Bioinformatics, 7:400.
Odom, DT, Dowell, RD, Jacobsen, ES, Nekludova, L, Rolfe, PA, Danford,
TW, Gifford, DK, Fraenkel, E, Bell, GI, and Young, RA (2006).
Core transcriptional regulatory circuitry in human hepatocytes.
Mol Syst Biol, 2:2006.0017.
