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Prospective Graduate Students

If you’re considering one of our graduate programs, we have more information about becoming a graduate student.


Contact the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

Email:
siccs​@nau.edu
Call:
928-523-0101

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What is Health and Bio-Informatics?

Health and Biological data are being generated at a rapid pace. Both data types fall into the category of big data science that requires considerable computational skill and infrastructure if we are to gain new insights into human health, disease, and biodiversity.

The scientists in the Health and Bioinformatics research groups at NAU have met this challenge by incorporating molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, health informatics, epidemiology, statistics, and computer science. Our expertise spans metagenomics, pathogen detection, infectious disease, phylogenetics, comparative genomics, population genetics, molecular evolution, secondary data analysis, epidemiological modeling, and cancer. We collaborate with community partners and research institutions throughout the world as well as here at NAU and in Flagstaff, and are funded by agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, Arizona Game & Fish Department, and the Arizona Department of Health Services.

Please read more about our research labs, faculty and research staff, graduate research and funding opportunities, and our undergraduate program.

Our Research-Intensive Faculty

Viacheslav “Slava” Fofanov

Associate Director for Graduate Programs, Assistant Professor
Lab: Fofanov Bioinformatics Lab
Research interests: High-throughput metagenomic sequencing, pathogen detection and transmission.

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Tara Furstenau

Assistant Research Professor
Research interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, metagenomic analysis, pathogen detection.

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Crystal Hepp

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Metagenomic analysis, molecular evolution, disease epidemiology.

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Joseph Mihaljevic

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Ecological informatics, multi-pathogen communities, infectious diseases.

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Marc Tollis

Assistant Professor
Research interests: Phylogenetics, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, cancer evolution.

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Our Graduate Programs

Masters in CS

Masters in INF

PhD in INF

School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
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Building 90
School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (Building #90)
1295 S. Knoles Dr.
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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PO Box 5693
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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siccs@nau.edu
Phone
928-523-0101
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