Ann Loraine

Biography:

Ann Loraine, Ph.D. is Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics in the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Loraine earned her Ph.D. degree in Molecular and Cell Biology in 1996 and did postdoctoral work in bioinformatics at the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. Following her postdoc, she joined a bioinformatics company called Neomorphic that was later purchased by Affymetrix, a microarray company.

In 2004, she returned to academia to start a research program with two goals: (1) build and support visualization software for genomics, and (2) understand how alternative splicing affects gene function.

Highest Degree:

Ph.D.

Highest Degree Institution:

UC Berkeley

College/Organization:

College of Computing and Informatics

Expertise:

Bioinformatics, Genome Data Visualization