Full-Time Faculty
Catherine Putonti
Title/s: Associate Professor of Biology and Computer Science
Office #: Doyle 304
Phone: 773.508.3277
E-mail: cputonti@luc.edu
About
Dr. Putonti joined Loyola in 2007 with a joint appointment in the departments of Biology and Computer Science.
Research Interests
Dr. Putonti's current research is computational biology. As a result of recent advances in sequencing techniques, the rate in which new biological data is becoming available far exceeds the rate in which one can perform analyses. Examining the wealth of information contained within genomic sequences presents numerous computational challenges necessitating the development of new algorithms and data structures. Her current studies focus on the distribution, compositional features and characteristics of short subsequences (n-mers or motifs) within genomic sequences.
