People

Todd Vision , ORCID

• Associate Professor, Department Biology
• Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Information and Library Sciences
• Office: Genome Sciences 3155; Email: tjv@bio.unc.edu; Phone: 919.962.4479

Paul Gabrielson, Adjunct Professor of Biology and Senior Curator, UNC Herbarium

Alumni

• Jim Balhoff (software developer 2007-2015), Renaissance Computing Institute
• Amy Bouck-Knight (postdoc 2005-2007), Illumina
• María Isabel Chacón Sanchez, (postdoc 2002-2004), Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Dina Faddah (undergrad 2003-2006), Neurocrine Biosciences
• Thomas Clarke, (graduate student 2006-2013), J Craig Venter Institute
• Lex Flagel, (postdoc 2009-2012), Monsanto
• Gus Fridell (undergraduate 2020-2020)
• Eric Ganko (postdoc 2004-2008), Syngenta
• Amanda Habel (technician 2001-2003)
• Stefanie Hartmann (postdoc 2004-2007), Universität Potsdam
• Caitlyn Kim (NC School of Science & Math research intern, 2021-2022)
• Prashanti Manda (postdoc 2013-2016), University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• Christine Mayo, Boston College
• Andrew Morgan (undergrad 2008-2009), Duke U. School of Medicine
• Oluwatosin Olayinka (undergrad 2018-2020), Boston University
• Jason Phillips (software developer, sysadmin 2002-2009), Sciome
• Joseph Pickrell (undergraduate 2004-2005), Gencove
• Heather Piwowar (postdoc 2010-2013), OurResearch
• Nathan Poslusny (undergrad, 2004-2007), Goldman Sachs
• Bryan Reatini (graduate student 2016-2021), US Forest Service
• Matthew Robinson (undergrad, 2001-2004), LabCorp
• Samantha Swauger(educational specialist 2014-2016), Colorado Dept of Education
• Suja Thomas (graduate student, 2006-2010), Data scientist, New York Times
• Maria Tsompana (postdoc 2005-2006), University at Buffalo
• Kuangyi Xu (graduate student, co-advised by M. Servedio, 2018-2023), University of Toronto
• Zongli Xu (postdoc 2003-2004), National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Emma Zhang, (undergraduate, 2020-2023)

NESCent postdoc advisees

From 2006-2015, when Dr. Vision served as Associate Director for Informatics at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center

• Gordon Burleigh, University of Florida, Gainesville
• Kirsten Fisher, California State University, Los Angeles
• Einat Hazkani-Covo, Open University of Israel
• Joshua Martin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Jennifer McGuire, Georgia Tech
• Brian O’Meara, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
• Eric Schuettpelz, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
• Stephen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor