Sharlee Climer, Ph.D.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Washington University in

St. Louis, 2006.

Fall 2026 Office Hours:

Monday’s 3:30pm - 5:00pm at 319 ESH and zoom

Thursday’s 5:30pm – 6:15pm (zoom)

https://umsystem.zoom.us/my/climer

Also by appointment

Publications
Personal Webpage

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)

Associate Professor

Contact Info

Email: climers@umsl.edu

Phone: (314) 516-4985

Office: 319 ESH

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