Dr. Volkert received her M.S and Ph.D. in the field of biomolecular computation from Wayne State University in 2001. She was a visiting professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Division of Computer Science at The University of Memphis for the 1999-2000 academic year and joined Kent State University as an assistant professor of Computer Science in 2001. Dr. Volkert's research is focused at the interface between computer science and biology. Current projects include development of new analysis tools for bioinformatics with a special emphasis on the utilization of machine learning techniques such as neural networks and evolutionary computation, evolutionary algorithms for phylogenetic tree reconstruction, medical data mining, and microarray data storage and analysis. Dr. Volkert has developed a multi-disciplinary bioinformatics course that brings together students from biology and computer science to work on bioinformatics projects in tandem with an introduction to the field..
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Evolutionary Computation (Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Programming, and Evolutionary Strategies)
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Machine Learning approaches to Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics
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Efficient Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees Incorporating Dynamic Non-Homogeneous Models of Sequence Evolution
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Protein Structure Analysis For the discovery of Patterns of Protein Binding
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Evolutionary Algorithms for Hidden Markov Models
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