Shoop specializes in Bioinformatics, specifically database management and warehousing. Before coming to Macalester in 2001, she worked as a Post-doctoral and Research Associate at the University of Minnesota in the Computational Biology Centers. She helped coordinate research on data from the human genome project, developing data warehouses and directing the development of data analysis and visualization tools. Shoop received a NSF Research Opportunity Award for the proposal entitled Interactive Software Tools for Multiple Genome Comparison and Exploration, as well as a grant from Nevin Young and Steven Cannon from the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Initiative for a project entitled: Client-Server Tools for Combining Biological Ontologies, Genome Sequence Comparisons and Evolutionary Data. The results of her research has appeared in high quality journals such as Bioinformatics. Shoop has taught courses on Database Systems, Internet Programming, Object-Rriented Programming, Software Development, Operating Systems, Bioinformatics and Introduction to Computing. EDUCATION: B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Minnesota Shoop has been teaching at Macalester since 2001.
Journal Articles
Virtual Clusters for Parallel Computing Education (with Richard Brown, Eric Biggers, Malcolm Kane, Devry Lin, and Maura Warner), Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education, SIGCSE 12. (2012)
Modules in Community: Injecting More Parallelism Into Computer Science Curricula (with Richard Brown), Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011) (2011)
WebMapReduce: An accessible and adaptable tool for teaching map-reduce computing (with Richard Brown, Patrick Garrity, and Timothy Yates), Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011) (2011)
Strategies for Preparing Computer Science Students for the Multicore World (with et al), Proceedings of 15th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2010) (2010)
The Genomics Education Partnership: Successful Integration of Research into Laboratory Classes at a Diverse Group of Undergraduate Institutions (with et al), CBE Life Sciences Education (2010)
Presentations
Early and often: Bringing more parallelism into undergraduate Computer Science (with et al), SPLASH 201 Workshop on Curricula for Concurrency and Parallelism (2010)