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Dan Knights
Knight Lab Dept. of Computer Science University of Colorado at Boulder danknights at gmail dot com |
Research interests
- Computational Biology
- Machine Learning
- Predictive modeling of metagenomes and microbiomes
- High-throughput sequencing analysis
In the news
- See a photo of my graduation-day Knighting ceremony, performed by my advisor Rob Knight.
- My Ph.D. dissertation was chosen for the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado (not given every year).
- My talk at the 2012 International Human Microbiome Congress was featured in Nature News
- Wu et al. Science paper listed in the "Runners Up" for Science Breakthrough of the Year.
- Mosquito attractiveness paper recommended by the Faculty of 1000.
- PLoS Journals list our mosquito attractiveness paper first on the card advertising their microbiome content.
- My PNAS paper with Jeff Werner et al. on bioreactor communities was declared a "must read" by the Faculty of 1000.
- My paper on mosquito attractiveness with Neils Verhulst et al. received extensive media coverage from NPR, Scientific American (podcast), Discover Magazine, MSNBC, and others.
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My Science paper with Gary Wu et al. was featured by
Science Daily,
Penn Medicine News at UPenn,
in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology's Year in Review.
- Coverage of my recent PNAS paper with Jeff Werner et al. by Discovery.com, Beer Universe, Cornell Chronicle and Daily Sun, and Science Daily.
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My other recent Science paper
was covered in "Your gut microbes are what you eat", Science News.
- Knights et al. Cell Host & Microbe paper featured on Cell Host & Microbe's Most Read Articles.
- Microbial Biogeography of Public Restroom Surfaces featured by NPR, Scientific American, and WebMD, among others.
- MIENS paper featured on Nature home page, discussed in Nature Reviews Microbiology editorial: Context is key for sequence data.
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Other links
- Curriculum vitae
- Brief Bio
- Speedcubing
- Official single solve: 11.93 seconds
- Official blindfolded solve (including memorization): 4 minutes, 38.71 seconds
- Unofficial average of 10 solves: 13.75 seconds
- Official world records: Single solve 16.71 seconds (2003), Average 20.00 seconds (2003)
- "The Most Concise Understandable Solution to Rubik's Cube Ever" (using group theory), Copyright 2006.
- "Revolving Door Solution", Copyright 2005.