Fish genomes, Ecuador to DePaul University, via a collaboration of a biologist & computer scientist

Windsor Aguirre, professor of evolutionary biology, and Thiru Ramaraj, assistant professor in the School of Computing, earned a University Research Council collaboration grant to fund their computational biology project. (DePaul University / Jeff Carrion)

It’s a long way from field work with two species of the characid genus Rhoadsia in Ecuador to creating genomes for them in research labs at DePaul University.

But that’s what Windsor Aguirre, professor of evolutionary biology, and Thiru Ramaraj, an assistant professor in the School of Computing, are doing in a collaboration through a University Research Council collaboration grant.