Contact Info
Phone: 301.405.9903
Fax: 301.314.1341
Office: 3240 Brendan Iribe Center
Michael Cummings
Professor
Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, UMIACS
Director, Data Science and Analytics Master of Professional Studies Program
Director, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Master of Professional Studies Program
Teaching
- BSCI 471: Molecular Evolution
- BISI 620: Bioinformatics and Genomics
- BIOL 671: Molecular Evolution
- DATA 698: Research Methods and Study Design
- DATA 699: Capstone Research Project
Graduate Program Affiliations
- BISI - Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, & Genomics (CBBG)
- BISI - Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics (BEES)
- Data Science and Analytics (DATA)
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOI)
Research Interests
Our research is in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology and molecular evolutionary genetics, and includes examination of patterns and processes of sequence evolution to understand molecular evolutionary mechanisms that bring about biological change. The basis for much of the research is comparative and includes several levels of biological organization. In addition to answering specific biological questions, a substantial portion of the research has focused on experimental design and data analysis methods, and software development.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1992. Molecular evolution, bioinformatics, computational biology.
