Introduction

John completed B.S. in Microbiology and Statistics from University of Georgia, 2016. He joined the department in Fall 2018. His current interests revolve around development of new approaches to glean biological insights from emerging sequencing technologies, mainly pertaining to the regulation of transcription and splicing. He is exploring a variety of projects in pure and applied bioinformatics: 1) Impact of technical biases of single cell RNA sequencing; 2) Detection of regulation of pre-mRNA processing from scRNA-seq; 3) MicroRNA target prediction and roles in human disease; 4) Etiological relevance of alternative splicing in human disease; and 5) Detection and regulation of nonsense mediated decay isoform production from RNA-seq.