Hi, I’m Paul!
I am a bioinformatics PhD student studying human impacts on biodiversity. Outside of my research, I am interested in literate programming, teaching, and gaming.
About me
I’m currently a member of the GERMS lab at Iowa State University. The focus of our work is in understanding how human activity affects the environment; specifically, we are studying the effects that agriculture has in soil and lake water systems. I previously studied how agriculture impacts biodiversity in soil communities and wrote MetaFunPrimer, a pipeline that designs high-throughput qPCR primers to target specific functional genes within an environment. My current projects are in predicting harmful algal blooms in Iowa lakes and analyzing the effect of crop priming additions on nitrogen fixation.
Outside of my research, I like to sleep, play video games, and play Magic: the Gathering. I’m also currently learning TypeScript.
Some blog posts
Learning Shiny (+ practicing some tidymodels)
Learning about Shiny while using tidymodels to make predictions on the Palmer Penguins dataset.
Read moreWhat I'm Working On
Quantifying the effects of crop priming on nitrogen fixation
Examining how different crop priming additions impact the nitrogen fixation capabilities of corn and Miscanthus Gigantus.
Read moreFeatured categories
GERMS (2) Research (2) bioinformatics (1)