Home Department: Mathematical Computational Sciences
Supported by: Dean of Research
Mentor: Susan Holmes, Professor of Statistics

Fatema is interested in statistics and computational mathematics, particularly data min-ing and data analysis. This summer she is working on a new dataset of human gut microbiome to observe if the data can be clustered to enterotypes and to compare the clusters to the enterotypes of the human gut microbiome found by other earlier studies. She is currently studying methods of normalization, visualization including projections onto lower dimensional space, and clustering of bacterial abundances in the human microbiome.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 26, 2013:

Dynamics of Bacterial Communities through a Time Course Experiment

Fatema AlGharbi¹, Shariyar Pruisken¹, Brandon Ewonus¹, Paul J McMurdie II², Yana Hoy³, David Relman³, Susan Holmes²
[Mathematical Computational Sciences¹, Department of Statistics², and School of Medicine³, Stanford University]