Teaching
Full Curriculum Vitae 
Courses
- Bio131
 
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- Offered approximately once per year
 
- Bio221
 
- Introduction to Scientific Literature and Discourse (w/ Derek Applewhite)
 
- Fall 2019
 
- Bio331
 
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- Offered approximately once per year
 
- Bio431
 
- One Bio431 offered approximately once per year
 
- Bio431
 
- The Genetics and Cell Biology of Cancer (w/ Derek Applewhite)
 
- One Bio431 offered approximately once per year
 
- CS0931
 
- Brown University Course, Spring 2012
 
Guest Lectures
- Biology Lectures
 
- Topics in Biology (BIO102) - approximately one lecture per year
 
- Cellular Biology (BIO372) - approximately one lecture per year
 
- CS/Math Lectures
 
- Computational Biology, Carleton College (CS362) - Fall 2021
 
- Computer Science Fundamentals (CSCI121) - Fall 2020
 
- Algorithms, Carleton College (CS252) - Spring 2020
 
- Module at Computational Biology Workshop, Carleton College - Fall 2018
 
- Statistical Learning (Math243) - Spring 2016
 
- Prior to Reed
 
- Hypergraph Algorithms and Applications, Virginia Tech (CS6824) - Spring 2014
 
- Data and Algorithm Analysis, Virginia Tech (CS4104) - Spring 2014
 
- Computational Thinking, Virginia Tech (CS6604) - Fall 2013
 
- Introduction to Computation for the Humanities and Social Science, Brown University (CS0931) - Fall 2011
 
- Topics in Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, and Cancer, Brown University (CS2950-C) - Fall 2011
 
Thesis Students
- 2022-2023
 
- Frank Zhuang: In progress
 
- 2021-2022
 
- Ananke Krishnan: Impacts of Backyard Habitat Creation for Birds at Single-Yard and City-Wide Scales
 
- Ingrid Zoll: Tree Health from Space: Modeling Urban Tree Health using Multispectral Satellite Imagery in Portland, OR
 
- 2020-2021
 
- Delaney Brubaker: Can we build a framework for the future of sustainable agriculture knowledge?
 
- Tayla Isensee: Sex-biased conserved gene calling expansion with orthogroups
 
- Jiarong Li: Complex network comparison using graphlets
 
- Hannah Meier: Phytoplankton on the Go! Understanding the effect of thermal acclimation on the movement strategies of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
 
- Aryeh Stahl: A generalized approach to graph de-anonymization
 
- 2019-2020
 
- Madeline Doak: Sex-Biased Gene Expression in the Brain Conserved Among Taxa.
 
- Gabe Preising: A Computational Network Approach to Examine Biological Crosstalk during Mouthbrooding in the Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni
 
- Sol Taylor-Brill: Computationally Analyzing the Effect of Cannabidiol on Enterohemorrhagic E. coli using Transcriptomic Data
 
- 2018-2019
 
- Miriam Bern: A Comparison of Two Methods for Identifying Alternative Splicing in Diploid and Tetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana Strains
 
- Alex King: Multi-omic Analysis of Genetically Induced Conditions
 
- Amy Rose Lazarte: Just Keep Swimming: Resolving the Patterns and Dynamics of Body Temperature in Freshwater Phytoplankton
 
- Ananthan Nambiar: Computing the Language of Life
 
- 2017-2018
 
- Petra Wijngaard: How Cytoscouts Got Shot Out of Dr. Ritz's New Interactome
 
- 2016-2017
 
- Moira Differding: Your Microbes are Super Models: Using Microbiome Data to Reproducibly Predict Crohn's Disease
 
- Nick Franzese: Examining the Practicality of Shortest Hyperpaths for Signaling Pathway Analysis: The Cheating Hyperpath Algorithm as an Alternative Approach
 
- 2015-2016
 
- Nicole Ezell: Pathway Models of Signal Dysregulation in Schizophrenia
 
- Heather Milne: Identification of Transposable Element Subfamilies using a Phylogenetic Network Approach
 
- Barney Potter: Prize-Collecting Steiner Trees in Directed Signaling Hypergraphs
 
  
 

Contact
Biology Department
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 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
 Portland, OR 97202-8199
 aritz-at-reed-dot-edu
 
 
 Curriculum Vitae [pdf]
 
 
 
 