Biography
Trina Norden-Krichmar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at UCI Public Health. The goal of her research is to investigate the genomic factors influencing human health and disease. In addition to the laboratory skills acquired by her biological research, she also has over 15 years of experience working as a computer programmer at IBM, the National Institutes of Health, and the Salk Institute. She has experience performing bioinformatics analyses applied to projects involving RNA sequencing and gene expression microarrays, DNA sequencing and genotyping arrays, microRNAs, methylomics, proteomics, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics. She teaches a Bioinformatics course at UC Irvine at both the graduate (EPIDEM 275) and undergraduate (PUBHLTH 119) levels.
Research Interests
Some of Norden-Krichmar's research interests are in bioinformatics, genetic factors in human diseases, gene expression analysis, methylation, non-coding RNA, metagenomics, medical, environmental and marine genomics, and more.
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology
- M.S., George Washington University, Washington, DC, Computer Science
- B.S., University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Biochemistry
