Matt Weirauch
Matt Weirauch is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Rheumatology and Biomedical Informatics at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He was a CIFAR Junior Fellow from 2009 to 2011, supervised by Genetic Networks Fellow Timothy Hughes in the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, under thesis advisors Dr. Joshua Stuart and Dr. Todd Lowe, in June 2009. He also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Pennsylvania State University.
Matt’s research largely falls within the realm of ‘functional genomics’, the study of how the genes within an entire genome interact with each other. He develops computational methods to analyze and integrate data measuring how genes are expressed, how genetic proteins interact, and how genetic functions can be perturbed or altered by internal or external influences. His work often incorporates concepts from graph and information theory to create and interpret gene networks. Matt has developed networks to study genetic interactions in worms, gene regulation in single-celled microbes called Archaea, and the co-expression of genes in different types of human cancers.
Matt’s research largely falls within the realm of ‘functional genomics’, the study of how the genes within an entire genome interact with each other. He develops computational methods to analyze and integrate data measuring how genes are expressed, how genetic proteins interact, and how genetic functions can be perturbed or altered by internal or external influences. His work often incorporates concepts from graph and information theory to create and interpret gene networks. Matt has developed networks to study genetic interactions in worms, gene regulation in single-celled microbes called Archaea, and the co-expression of genes in different types of human cancers.