{"id":579,"date":"2012-07-03T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=579"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:11:15","slug":"alum-keith-crandall-hired-to-direct-computational-biology-institute-at-george-washington-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/alum-keith-crandall-hired-to-direct-computational-biology-institute-at-george-washington-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Alum Keith Crandall Hired to Direct Computational Biology Institute at George Washington University"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Crandall \u201987<\/strong>\u00a0has been hired by George Washington University to direct its new\u00a0Computational Biology Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Computational biology combines elements of computer science and biology, and its practitioners develop tools to analyze data generated in researching genetics and genomics, including genetic mapping and DNA sequencing.<\/p>\n

Crandall\u2019<\/strong>s research interests have included crustacean biology, biodiversity, and infectious diseases. His B.A. from Kalamazoo College is in biology. At Washington University in St. Louis he earned a Ph.D.in population and evolutionary biology and a master\u2019<\/strong>s degree in statistics. His work at CBI will include an investigation of the impact of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using gene expression to identify how oil pollutants affect deep sea crustaceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Crandall \u201987\u00a0has been hired by George Washington University to direct its new\u00a0Computational Biology Institute. Computational biology combines elements of computer science and biology, and its practitioners develop tools to analyze data generated in researching genetics and genomics, including genetic mapping and DNA sequencing. Crandall\u2019s research interests have included crustacean biology, biodiversity, and infectious diseases. 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its practitioners develop tools to analyze data generated in researching genetics and genomics, including genetic mapping and DNA sequencing.<\/p>\n<p>Crandall<strong>\u2019<\/strong>s research interests have included crustacean biology, biodiversity, and infectious diseases. His B.A. from Kalamazoo College is in biology. At Washington University in St. Louis he earned a Ph.D.in population and evolutionary biology and a master<strong>\u2019<\/strong>s degree in statistics. His work at CBI will include an investigation of the impact of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, using gene expression to identify how oil pollutants affect deep sea crustaceans.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}