Cole Trapnell

Cole Trapnell
Cole Trapnell at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018
Born
Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr.

1982 (age 4243)
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park (BS, PhD)
Known for
AwardsOverton Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsTranscriptomics
Cell differentiation
Non-coding RNA
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
Harvard University
ThesisTranscript assembly and abundance estimation with high-throughput RNA sequencing (2010)
Doctoral advisorSteven Salzberg
Lior Pachter
Websitewww.gs.washington.edu/faculty/trapnell.htm

Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. (born 1982) is an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. He was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) for “outstanding accomplishment in the early to mid stage of his career” in 2018.