Cole Jensen, MPH
PhD Student, Computational Biology and BioinformaticsAbout
Titles
PhD Student, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Biography
Cole Jensen is a computational biologist with a background in epidemiology, statistics, and evolutionary biology. His research interests include developing computational evolutionary and graph-based approaches for studying B-cell biology.
Departments & Organizations
Education & Training
- MPH
- Yale University, Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Public Health Modeling Concentration (2021)
- BS
- Brigham Young University, Public Health Emphasis: Epidemiology (2019)
Research
Overview
Research Assistant, Yale University, New Haven CT Mar 2020 - June 2021
Advisor: Dr. Nathan Grubaugh
• Helped maintain the official West Nile Nextstrain page
• Helped create and maintain, covidtrackerct.com which lead to a co-first author publication on PLOS Biology
• Preformed phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2, Dengue Virus, and West Nile Virus genomes
Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, Provo UT Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Advisor: Dr. Brianna Magnusson
• Created a survey to collect data for how fathers cope with pregnancy loss resulting in over 500 responses
• Researches and suggests scales to use for how fathers cope with a pregnancy loss to ensure results measure the intended result
• Performs statistical analysis using SAS on over 1,000 data entries
• Wrote the methods and results section of a research article that is under review for publication
Research Assistant, Brigham Young University, Provo UT Mar 2018 - Aug 2019 Advisor: Dr. John Beard
• Collected 38 years of data from the EPA, over 15 years of data from the Weather Service, and more than 15 decades of data from Health data from the state of Utah
• Examined, manipulated, and combined over 38 years of data totaling over 70,000 data entries
• Recoded over 70,00 dataset entries uses multiple imputations to fill in missing data for easier manipulation and presentation
• Primary author on one paper and contributing author on three others