Leigh-Anne Mathieson
Bachelor of Science student at the University of British Columbia
Combined Mathematics and Computer Science
Research
Thanks to an NSERC USRA, this past summer I worked for
Anne Condon in the
Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithms Lab. I worked
on RNA Folding pathways, and more specifically, repeated
and temporary edges in these pathways.
Interests
Working in the BETA lab this past summer has really sparked my interest
in
bioinformatics. Mostly, I am interested in RNA folding pathways and
RNA structure prediction. Sometime in the future, I'd like to work on
biomolecular computing or computer science problems with a rather
sizable side of statistics.
Publications
C. Thachuk, J. Manuch, A. Rafiey, L. Mathieson, L. Stacho, and A.
Condon. An
algorithm for the energy barrier problem without pseudoknots
and temporary arcs, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, to appear.
Courses I'm taking
This fall I am taking the following courses:
CPSC 320 - Intermediate Algorithm Design and Analysis
CPSC 310 - Introduction to Software Engineering
CPSC 304 - Introduction to Relational Databases
ANTH 429 - Global Health in Cross Cultural Contexts
MATH 303 - Introduction to Stochastic Processes
Links
- The BETA Lab
- A tutorial I
wrote for anthropologists who are are looking to join the
party and make their diagrams with MetaPost
- The Bioinformatics Reading Group
- Proof that I once dressed up
as a logic gate, probably suggesting that I am too nerdy for my
own good.
- Haskell puts the fun in
functional programming. If you haven't had some fun with functional
programming, you are missing out.
- If you're from my ANTH 429 class, you're probably looking to go here.