Christina Boucher

Recent Lab News

06.08.2016 "Colored de Bruijn Graphs" accepted for Late Breaking Research Presentation at ISMB 2016.

01.08.2016 Christina Boucher is an invited keynote spearker for RECOMB-seq 2016.

01.01.2016 "Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches" accepted to the proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2016). [Acceptance rate: 23%]

07.20.2015: "Fast and Efficient Compression of High-Throughput Sequencing Reads" accepted to ACM-BCB 2015. Congratulations to Trey Kind for his undergraduate reasearch work.

07.20.2015: "Consensus Patterns (Probably) Has no EPTAS" was selected to receive best paper at ESA 2015.

06.20.2015: "Relative Select" accpted to SPIRE 2015. Preprint here.

06.17.2015 "Consensus Patterns (Probably) Has no EPTAS" accepted to ESA 2015 [26% acceptance rate].

06.01.2015 "Elucidating the Role of Bioinformatics Software in Life Science Research" accepted to BritishHCI.

05.01.2015 Congratulations on Laura Adams and Thomas Harrison on their graduation!

03.01.2015 "The SLOW GROWTH 3 pentatricopeptide repeat protein is required for the splicing of mitochondrial nad7 intron 2 in Arabidopsis" accepted to Plant Physiology.

02.14.2015 "Misassembly Detection using Paired-End Sequence Reads and Optical Mapping data" by Martin Muggli, Simon Puglisi, Roy Ronen, and Christina Boucher accepted to ISMB 2015 in first round of acceptance (9% acceptance on first round). Described on Homolog.us here.

01.15.2015 "Paradigm Shift: Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology through Whole Genome Analysis of Microbial Communities" (PI: Paul Morley, 2.2M) funded by USDA. Article about USDA grant.

01.03.2015. "Variable-Order de Bruijn Graphs" by Christina Boucher, Alex Bowe, Travis Gagie, Simon J. Puglisi, Kunihiko Sadakane accepted to DCC 2015, also, described as "Best of 2014".

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. Prior to joining as faculty, I worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of California, San Diego in Pavel Pevzner's lab. In November 2010, I received my doctorate degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Ming Li and Prabhakar Ragde.

My research aims to design and implement efficient algorithms that solve computational problems in genomics and transcriptomics. I frequently collaborate with biologists, mathematicians and clinician scientists in the tool development in order to ensure their practical application.

The Boucher lab greatly appreciates the support from the following granting agencies: USDA, NIH (CCTSI), Morris Animal Foundation, and Windows Azure for Research.

Resistome diversity in cattle and the environment decreases during beef production

Noelle R Noyes, Xiang Yang, Lyndsey M. Linke, Roberta J. Magnuson, Adam Dettenwanger, Shaun Cook, Ifigenia Geornaras, Dale R. Woerner , Sheryl P. Gow, Tim A. McAllister, Hua Yang, Jaime Ruiz, Kenneth L. Jones, Christina A. Boucher, Paul S. Morley, Keith E. Belk. 2016. eLife 2016;5:e13195

Characterization of the resistome in manure, soil and wastewater from dairy and beef production systems.

N.R. Noyes, X. Yang, L.M. Linke, R.J. Magnuson, A. Dettenwanger, S. Cook, R. Zaheer, H. Yang, D. Woerner, I. Geornaras, J. McArt, S.P. Gow, J. Ruiz, K.L. Jones, C.A. Boucher, T. McAllister, P.S. Morley, and K.E. Belk. Characterization of the resistome in manure, soil and wastewater from dairy and beef production systems. Scientific Reports, 6:24645, 2016.

Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches

Shaikh Shawon Arefin Shimon, Courtney Lutton, Zichun Xu, Sarah Morrison-Smith, Christina Boucher, and Jaime Ruiz. 2016. Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3822-3833. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858385

Use of metagenomic shotgun sequencing technology to detect foodborne pathogens within their microbiome in beef production chain

Xiang Yang, Noelle R. Noyes, Enrique Doster, Jennifer N. Martin, Lyndsey M. Linke, Roberta J. Magnuson, Hua Yang, Ifigenia Geornaras, Dale Woerner, Kenneth L. Jones, Jaime Ruiz, Christina Boucher, Paul S. Morley, and Keith E. Belk. Use of metagenomic shotgun sequencing technology to detect foodborne pathogens within their microbiome in beef production chain. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. AEM.00078-16; Accepted manuscript posted online 12 February 2016, doi:10.1128/AEM.00078-16

Opportunities for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Projects

Morrison-Smith, S., Boucher, C., Wang, I., and Ruiz, J. 2016. Opportunities for Supporting Large-Scale Collaborative Projects. In Proceedings of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '16): Workshop on Large-scale Collaborative Projects to Affect Societal Change.