Lawson Woods
Lawson Woods graduated with a BS in Computer Science from ASU in Fall 2024 and he is now working as a Bioinformatician at TGen.
He is interested in the application of bioinformatic tools in clinical diagnostics and drug discovery. He joined the lab in Spring 2024 to build a molecular dynamics trajectory format (zarrtraj) capable of reading and writing trajectories directly to cloud storage as an MDAKit for MDAnalysis.
He participated in Google Summer of Code 2024 with MDAnalysis where he extended his work on zarrtraj to implement general streaming of H5MD trajectories in MDAnalysis.
From Summer 2024 until early 2025 he was working as Research Software Engineer on a NSF-funded collaborative project between the Heyden and Beckstein Groups to directly stream data from running MD simulations into MDAnalysis and he developed the imdclient package as well as worked on the code to implement the IMDv3 streaming protocol in LAMMPS, GROMACS, and NAMD.
In summer 2024, he also interned in Dr. Keats’ lab at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix to support bioinformatic software development and to leverage emerging high-throughput RNA sequencing techniques in Multiple Myeloma research.
