Publications
Books
Research Papers
- Ensembl Genomes 2016: more genomes, more complexity.
Kersey, Paul; et al. — Nucl. Acids Res. (04 January 2016) 44 (D1): D574-D580 - Ensembl Genomes 2013: Scaling up access to genome-wide data.
Kersey, Paul; et al. — Nucl. Acids Res. (1 January 2014) 42 (D1): D546-D552 - Using Interpolation to Estimate System Uncertainty in Gene Expression Experiments.
Falin LJ, Tyler BM (2011) — PLoS ONE 6(7): e22071. - Systems Uncertainty in Systems Biology & Gene Function Prediction
Falin LJ (2011) — PhD Dissertation
Conference Presentations
- Adapting Teaching to the Needs of the Learner
VT Hokie Stone Commemoration — 2010 - System Uncertainty in Gene Expression Data
VT Graduate Research Symposium — 2010 - Microarray Data Inference
ACC Interdisciplinary Forum for Discovery in the Life Sciences — 2010 - Microarray Data Inference
ISCB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology — 2010 - OpenCL — Now Everyone Has a Supercomputer (Almost)
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute — 2009 - Inference of Functional Modules in Regulatory Networks
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute — 2007
University Courses
BYU-Idaho
Southern Virginia University
- Game Design Patterns and Game Development
- Software Engineering & Software Project Management
- Database Systems
- Theory of Computation
- Software Engineering
University of the Cumberlands
- Essentials of Gamification
- Game for Learning and Simulation
- Advanced Multiplayer
Popular Science / Outreach
Podcasts
My Cousin Jane is a podcast produced by Jane Austen’s cousin, Lee Falin—well, her 8th cousin, 6 times removed—about the life and works of Jane Austen.
Rather than explore the “literary themes and ethos of Jane Austen”, or something else you might hear about in a graduate-level English Lit class, My Cousin Jane presents a lighthearted, chapter-by-chapter collection of segments that one could think of as the “Deleted Scenes” or “Bonus Features” of Austen’s works.
For just over two years, I was the writer and host of the Everyday Einstein science education podcast (since rebranded as Ask Science), part of Macmillan’s Quick and Dirty Tips podcast network.
The podcast was regularly in the top 10 K-12 educational podcasts on iTunes, and transcripts of some episodes were featured in Scientific American.
Podchaser contains an archive of all of the episodes I hosted.
TOR / Reactor Magazine
The Science of Future Past
The Science of Future Past is a series I wrote for TOR, which explores whether early science fiction writers were predicting the future or helping to define it.
Each article highlights a set of concepts invented or popularized in classic works of science fiction, and then explores how those concepts have taken shape in modern times.
The first part of the series focuses on Isaac Asimov’s classic book, Foundation, while the second part looks at the technology of Frank Herbert’s Dune.
- Foundation – Did Asimov Predict Wikipedia?
Reactor Magazine, 12 December 2012 - Foundation – The Priesthood of Science
Reactor Magazine, 3 January 2013 - Foundation – DNA Steganography
Reactor Magazine, 8 January 2013 - Foundation – Spy Beams and Field Distorters
Reactor Magazine, 24 January 2013 - Foundation – Transmutation
Reactor Magazine, 1 February 2013 - Foundation – Food Preservation
Reactor Magazine, 21 February 2013 - Dune – The Box
Reactor Magazine, 10 July 2013 - Dune – Hunter-Seeker
Reactor Magazine, 1 August 2013 - Dune – Sandworms of Arrakis
Reactor Magazine, 7 August 2013
The Science of Allomancy
The Science of Allomancy series applies real-world science to the question of how various metals and alloys might fuel the powers of the Allomancers in Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series.
- The Science of Allomancy in Mistborn: Tin
Reactor Magazine, 15 May 2012 - The Science of Allomancy in Mistborn: Copper
Reactor Magazine, 23 May 2012 - The Science of Allomancy in Mistborn: Zinc and Brass
Reactor Magazine, 30 May 2012 - The Science of Allomancy in Mistborn: Pewter
Reactor Magazine, 13 June 2012 - The Science of Allomancy in Mistborn: Iron and Steel
Reactor Magazine, 22 August 2012
One-Offs
My favorite, and most popular article for TOR was based on an observation one of my young daughters made while watching the movie, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”. She noticed that the relative scale of various objects in the movie were inconsistent.
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the Science of Scale.
Reactor Magazine, 31 August 2012
Scientific American
Transcripts for some of the episodes of the Everyday Einstein science education podcast were also published in Scientific American.
- Why Do Apples Turn Brown?
Scientific American, 19 September 2012 - What is a Neural Network?
Scientific American, 14 November 2012 - Why Are Weather Forecasts Often Wrong?
Scientific American, 9 January 2013 - What’s a Capacitor?
Scientific American, 6 March 2013 - What Is “Supersonic”?
Scientific American, 10 July 2013 - Correlation vs. Causation
Scientific American, 2 August 2013 - What Is Gluten?
Scientific American, 31 October 2013 - Should You Worry about the Ebola Outbreak?
Scientific American, 26 November 2014 - Can Turmeric Prevent or Cure Disease?
Scientific American, 25 March 2015
Medium Publications
An eclectic collection of articles written for various publications hosted on Medium:
- Elemental: How I Used Video Gaming Research to Get Healthy
Elemental, 30 August 2019 - The Writing Cooperative: Three Questions Every Writer Has To Answer To Be Successful
The Writing Cooperative, 6 August 2019 - Medium: The Crazy and Wonderful State of Web Development
The Writing Cooperative, 7 October 2016 (This article is also included in the list of readings for CompSci 290 at Duke University)