Invasive plant pathogenic fungi have a global impact, with devastating economic and
environmental effects on crops and forests. Biosurveillance, a critical component of threat mitigation…

Phylogenetics is a branch of computational biology that studies the evolutionary relationships
among biological entities. Its long history and numerous applications notwithstanding, …

Background Context Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are designed to ensure that
evidence-based treatment is easily put into action. Whether patients and clinicians follow these …

Motivation The ability to develop robust machine-learning (ML) models is considered
imperative to the adoption of ML techniques in biology and medicine fields. This challenge is …

Accurately predicting phenotype using genotype across diverse ancestry groups remains a
significant challenge in human genetics. Many state-of-the-art polygenic risk score models …

Recently, learning invariant predictors across varying environments has been shown to improve
the generalization of supervised learning methods. This line of investigation holds great …

Background: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) are designed to ensure that evidence-based
care is easily put into action. Whether patients and clinicians follow these guidelines is …

Spatial genomic organization is known to be critical for proper gene regulation. It is based
on a hierarchical model where chromosomes are divided into megabase-sized cell-type …

The practice of burying objects with the dead is often claimed as some of the earliest evidence
for religion, on the assumption that such “grave goods” were intended for the decedents’ …

… in Chapter 2, which were performed by Elliot Layne, a PhD candidate in the School of …
thank the following people for their research collaboration and support: Elliot Layne and Dr. …