Travis Wheeler is an Associate Professor in the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Practice. He earned his bachelors in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona, then his PhD in Computer Science from UArizona, with a research emphasis on computational genomics. He spent 5 years as a postdoc and research scientist in the research group of Sean Eddy at HHMI Janelia Research Campus, then joined the Computer Science faculty at the University of Montana in 2014, where he remained until his move back to Arizona in 2022. Dr. Wheeler leads a group (http://wheelerlab.org/people) with research focus that can be broadly described as “algorithms and machine learning approaches for computational biology”, primarily emphasizing applications to genomics, drug discovery, and animal behavior classification.