My name is Chris Lasher. I'm a graduate student in the Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology (GBCB) program at Virginia Tech, under the advisement of T. M. Murali and Padma Rajagopalan. In my research, I try to uncover dynamic links between biological processes by mining high-throughput data. These things I love: family, Python, distributed revision control, hot showers, Friday Beers, TED Talks, Wes Anderson films, Italian, gypsy jazz, and elegance.