Keegan Flanagan
Graduate Student (Ph.D)
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Summary
Keegan is a PhD student in UCSD’s Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BISB) program. While completing his bachelor's in biology at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Keegan developed a keen interest in computer science and the analysis of biological data. As such, he spent a spent 3 years working in different research labs covering a wide range of fields including ecology, proteomics, phylogenetics, and RNA biology. Keegan moved from Vancouver BC to San Diego in 2023 for graduate school. Keegan is generally interested in combining his previous experience with evolutionary and RNA biology to study how the targets of RNA binding proteins (RBPs) change and evolve across species.
When not in the lab, Keegan enjoys reading fantasy novels on the beach, playing video games, and doing prep work for his Dungeons and Dragons game.
Education
B.S., Biology, University of British Columbia 2022
Contact
keflanagan@ucsd.edu
Publications
Peña-Díaz, S., Chao, J. D., Rens, C., Haghdadi, H., Zheng, X., Flanagan, K., ... & Av-Gay, Y. (2024). Glycogen synthase kinase 3 inhibition controls Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. iScience.
Flanagan, K., Pelech, S., Av-Gay, Y., & Dao Duc, K. (2023). CAT PETR: a graphical user interface for differential analysis of phosphorylation and expression data. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology.
Flanagan, K., Li, W., Dao Duc, K., & Greenblatt, E. J. (2022). End-to-end pipeline for differential analysis of pausing in ribosome profiling data. STAR Protocols.
Flanagan, K., Baradaran-Heravi, A., Yin, Q., Dao Duc, K., Spradling, A. C., & Greenblatt, E. J. (2022). FMRP-dependent production of large dosage-sensitive proteins is highly conserved. Genetics.