Hunter Richards graduated in 2008 from Stanford University with a Bachelors and Masters in Biology. Realizing that coding the Next Hottest Algorithm was a lot better than doing your thousandth Western Blot, he quickly took a job with McManus & Co. in order to hone his nascient Bioinformatics skills, which was his Masters focus. He now works with Dr. Greg Ku using high complexity libraries to screen, in a massively-parallel way, putative 3'-UTR microRNA targets using deep sequencing, FACS, and a bit of cunning statistics. He is also one of the lab's resident code monkies and fills his spare time creating databases and websites for the McManus Lab and collaborators. In what little time he has left over, he enjoys reading, cooking, taekwondo, squash, and backgammon. And he still has yet to do another Western.
My project involves developing a high-throughput screen for finding 3'-UTRs that respond to a given microRNA.
