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Summary
I'm a Postdoctoral Fellow and member of the Nathan Price Group at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, USA. My research focus is on the computational reconstruction of the biochemical reaction network of a cell, primarily focusing on the metabolic network of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Such models may be used for applications ranging from disease simulations to developing metabolic engineering strategies for imporiving industrial biocatalysts.
Academic and Professional Background
Academic
- Ph.D. Cornell University 2012
- Biological and Environmental Engineering
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- M.S. University of Colorado at Boulder 2004
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- B.S. University of Puget Sound 1999
- Majors: Mathematics, Natural Sciences with an emphasis in Physics
Professional
- Graduate Research Assistant - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Environmental Engineer - Shannon & Wilson, Inc., Anchorage, AK
- Post-Bachelors Technical Research Assistant - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
- Systems Administrator - ArsDigita, Cambridge, MA
- Visiting Technical Advisor - Africa University, Mutare, Zimbabwe
Peer Reviewed Publications
- Heavner B.D., Smallbone K., Barker B., Mendes P., Walker L.P. 2012. Yeast 5 - an expanded reconstruction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolic network. BMC Systems Biology, 6:55. [doi:10.1186/1752-0509-6-55]
- Heavner B.D., Henry S.A., and Walker L.P. 2012. Evaluating Sphingolipid Biochemistry in the Consensus Reconstruction of Yeast Metabolism. Industrial Biotechnology, 8(2):72-78. [doi:10.1089/ind.2012.0002]
Resources
I host the following resources for research collaborators:
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