Wheaton College Lexomics Group

Professors
	Dr. Mark D. LeBlanc (e-mail) - NEH Primary Investigator, Co-Leader Wheaton Genomics Research Group, and Professor of Computer Science at Wheaton College. LeBlanc has supervised the development of many software tools and computational experiments in genomics, including a web-based "DNA Dictionary" based on the online Oxford English Dictionary. Mark tries to manage the software-types.
	Dr. Michael Drout (e-mail) - NEH Co-PI , Anglo-Saxon scholar, Prentice Chair, and Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College. Mike enjoys the study of really old writing, writing from way, way before you were born. Drout has written extensively on medieval literature, including articles on Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon wills, the Old English translation of the Rule of Chrodegang, the Exeter Book 'wisdom poems' and Anglo-Saxon medical texts. Drout's English grammar book, King Alfred's Grammar, is available at his website, www.michaeldrout.com where you can hear him read you some Anglo-Saxon as a bedtime story.
	Dr. Michael J. Kahn (e-mail) - NEH Co-PI , Director of Quantitative Analysis and Professor of Mathematics at Wheaton College. Mike has collaborated on numerous applications, mostly in the field of Biostatistics. His areas of research range from applications of Bayesian logistic regression models for health care funding, to analyses of cancer clinical trials and analyses of sociological data regarding parenting patterns in Jamaica. His most recent work is a collaborative effort regarding classification problems and techniques in genomics with Dr. LeBlanc and Dr. Betsey Dyer.
	Dr. Betsey Dexter Dyer (e-mail) - Professor of Biology at Wheaton College and Co-Leader Wheaton Genomics Research Group, is most responsible for keeping the software-types busy. She is interested in all things linguistic, including the application of computational sylistics to metagenomic data sets.
Students
	Amos Jones `11 (e-mail) - Having known only rudimentary HTML, I (yes I'll speak in the first person here) learned PHP, Javascript and brushed up on HTML to build this website that you see. But when not making the tools you see on this website I devote my time to playing videogames. Most of my time as of recent has been poured into the heart wrenching story of Grand Theft Auto IV. When I'm not doing that I'm probably watching any form of auto racing I can find on TV, or even at the track.
	Christina Nelson `11 (e-mail) - When she's not running loops around the track, Christina Nelson is running programs to loop around and get statistics for each text, manuscript, category, and even going the distance with information for the entire corpus. On top of writing and running the programs, she documents them and runs tests, doing all the math out by hand to backup the computer. She enjoys using her math and computer science background to explore new subject areas, such as the anglo-saxon corpus, and enjoys getting to do a happy dance or victory lap when all her hard work comes out right!
	Neil Kathok `10 (e-mail) - Is still a mystery to all of us.

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