Laurie J. Heyer is an American mathematician specializing in

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

and

bioinformatics Bioinformatics () is an interdisciplinary field that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, in particular when the data sets are large and complex. As an interdisciplinary field of science, bioinformatics combi ...

. She is Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics at

Davidson College Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. It was established in 1837 by the Concord Presbytery and named after Revolutionary War general William Lee Davidson, who was killed at the nearby Battle of Cowan� ...

, director of Davidson's Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and former chair of Davidson's Mathematics and Computer Science Department.

Education

Heyer is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington. She completed her Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation, ''The Probabilistic Behavior of Sequence Analysis Scores with Application to Structural Alignment of RNA'', was jointly supervised by John A. Williamson and

Gary Stormo Gary Stormo (born 1950) is an American geneticist and currently Joseph Erlanger Professor in the Department of Genetics and the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. He is consider ...

Textbooks

With Malcolm Campbell, Heyer is the author of the textbook ''Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, & Bioinformatics'' (Benjamin Cummings and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003; 2nd ed., Pearson, 2007). Campbell, Heyer, and Christopher Paradise also wrote the electronic text ''Integrating Concepts in Biology''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Heyer, Laurie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American mathematicians Women bioinformaticians University of Texas at Arlington alumni University of Colorado Boulder alumni Davidson College faculty 21st-century American women mathematicians American bioinformaticians