Laurie J. Heyer is an American mathematician specializing in
genomics and
bioinformatics. She is Kimbrough Professor of Mathematics at
Davidson College,[1] director of Davidson's Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship,[2] and former chair of Davidson's Mathematics and Computer Science Department.[3]
Education
Heyer is a graduate of the
University of Texas at Arlington.[1] She completed her Ph.D. in 1998 at the
University of Colorado Boulder. Her dissertation, The Probabilistic Behavior of Sequence Analysis Scores with Application to Structural Alignment of RNA, was jointly supervised by John A. Williamson and
Gary Stormo.[4]
Textbooks
With Malcolm Campbell, Heyer is the author of the textbook Discovering Genomics, Proteomics, & Bioinformatics (Benjamin Cummings and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2003; 2nd ed., Pearson, 2007).[5] Campbell, Heyer, and Christopher Paradise also wrote the electronic text Integrating Concepts in Biology.[6]
^Gregerson, Robert G.; Lindblom, Tim H. (January 2008), "A unique textbook for teaching courses in bioinformatics", Computing in Science & Engineering, 10 (1): 7–8,
doi:
10.1109/mcse.2008.3
^Prestwich, K. N.; Sheehy, A. M. (September 2015), "Integrating Concepts in Biology: A Model for More Effective Ways to Introduce Students to Biology", CBE: Life Sciences Education, 14 (3): fe3,
doi:
10.1187/cbe.15-04-0102,
PMC4710395