Catherine (Catie) Welsh

Graduate Student and Research Assistant Department of Computer Science Sitterson Hall 324 3175 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3175 United States Email: cwelsh at cs dot unc dot edu

CV (updated January 2, 2013): pdf

Research Interests

My research interests are primarily in the fields of bioinformatics and computational genetics. I'm part of the UNC Computational Genetics Group and my advisor is Prof. Leonard McMillan. My earlier work at UNC was on pair-wise sequence identity comparisons among inbred mouse strains. To see more about this project, check out my web applications. My most recent work is being done on using marker-assisted inbreeding techniques to decrease the number of generations it takes to achieve fully-inbred mice. For this work, I've built a simulator and the techniques tested in the simulator are being implemented with live mice housed in Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena's lab in UNC Genetics.

Teaching

• NESCent Academy 2011 - Practical Computing for Biologists - Summer 2011 (TA)  link
• COMP 110-002 - Introduction to Programming - Spring 2011 (Instructor)  link
• COMP 790-90 - Data Mining: Concepts, Algorithms, and Applications - Spring 2009 (TA for Prof. Wang) link

Publications Google Scholar

• Catherine E. Welsh, Darla R. Miller, Kenneth F. Manly, Jeremy Wang, Leonard McMillan, Grant Morahan, Richard Mott, Fuad A. Iraqi, David W. Threadgill, and Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena (2012). Status and access to the Collaborative Cross Publication. Mammalian Genome: 10.1007/s00335-012-9410-6
• Catherine E. Welsh and Leonard McMillan (2012). Accelerating the Inbreeding of Multi-Parental Recombinant Inbred Lines Generated By Sibling Matings. G3: 10.1534/g3.111.001784
• Chen-ping Fu, Catherine E. Welsh, Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, and Leonard McMillan. Ancestry Inference of Admixed Populations with Microarray Probe Intensities. ACM-BCB, 2012.
• Collaborative Cross Consortium Catherine. E. Welsh, 2012. The Genome Architecture of the Collaborative Cross Mouse Genetic Reference Population. Genetics 190: 389-402.
• Svenson, Karen. L., Daniel. M. Gatti, William. Valdar, Catherine. E. Welsh, Riyan. Cheng, Elissa J. Chessler, Abraham A. Palmer, Leonard McMillan, and Gary A. Churchill, 2012. High resolution genetic mapping using the mouse Diversity Outbred population. Genetics 190: 437-447.
• Yang, Hyuna, Wang, Jeremy R, Didion, John P, Buus, Ryan J, Bell, Timothy A, Welsh, Catherine E, Bonhomme, Francois, Yu, Alex Hon-Tsen, Nachman, Michael W, Pialek, Jaroslav, Tucker, Priscilla, Boursot, Pierre, McMillan, Leonard, Churchill, Gary A, & de Villena, Fernando Pardo-Manuel (2011). Subspecific origin and haplotype diversity in the laboratory mouse Nature Genetics : 10.1038/ng.847

Classes

• COMP 750 - Algorithmic Analysis (Prof. Sanjoy, Fall 2007)
• COMP 790 - Topics in Computer Science - Bioalgorithms (Prof. Wang, Fall 2007)
• COMP 715 - Visualization in Science (Prof. Taylor, Spring 2008)
• COMP 651 - Computational Geometry(Prof. Snoeyink, Spring 2008)
• COMP 455 - Models of Language and Computation(Prof. Sanjoy, Spring 2008)
• COMP 665 - Images, Graphics, and Vision (Prof. McMillan, Fall 2008)
• COMP 911 - Professional Writing in Computer Science (Prof. Dewan, Fall 2008)
• COMP 790 - Topics in Computer Science - Genetics & the Coalescent Theory(Prof. McMillan, Spring 2009)
• COMP 915 - Technical Communication (Profs. Brooks and Weiss, Spring 2009)
• MATH 661 - Scientific Computation I (Prof. Huang, Fall 2009)

Education

• PhD Candidate, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC (August 2007 - Present)
• Masters of Science, Department of Computer Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (August 2005 - May 2007)
• Bachelors of Science, Computer Science, Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA (August 2000 - May 2004)

Talks

• "Techniques for Accelerating Inbreeding in the Collaborative Cross" - Given at CTC 2010 (Slides)

Other Interests

• Member of Heat Lacrosse - a post-collegiate women's lacrosse team
• Trained for and ran the 2008 City of Oaks Marathon
• Spending time with my awesome dog May!