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Ph.D. in Computer Science, Washington University in
St. Louis, 2006.
Email: climer@umsl.edu
Office: 319 ESH
Phone: (314) 516-4985
Fax: (314) 516-5400
Office Hours: MW 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM (in person)
Please email to request zoom meeting or alternative time.
Main Research Interests
- Computational Biology
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Clustering and Network Modeling
- Mathematical Linear Programming
Selected Research Involvement
- Identification of analyte and genetic patterns associated with complex traits, including COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s disease
- Optimal combinatorial associations for complex traits, including COVID-19 and Alzheimer’s disease
- Optimization of objective functions for clustering algorithms
- Data visualization using heatmaps
External Grants
- “A Multipronged Interrogation of Large-Scale Omics Data to Reveal COVID-19 Pathways”, NIH, 2020-2021 (PI)
- “Using quantitative traits to identify novel genes for Alzheimer’s disease and other complex traits”, NIH, 2015-2020 (PI)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) LRP awards, 2015-present (PI)
- “Ecological genomics: analysis of gene expression underlying parallel habitat adaptation in distinct salamander species”, Deutsch-Israel Project grant, 2013-2017 (Consultant)
- “A Novel Co-expression Network Approach that is Robust to Genetic Heterogeneity”, NIH, 2012-2016 (Investigator)