Cole Trapnell

For the American television producer, see Coles Trapnell.

Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. (born 1982)^[1] is an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.^[4] He was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) for “outstanding accomplishment in the early to mid stage of his career” in 2018.^[5]

Cole Trapnell
Cole Trapnell at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018
Born	Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. 1982 (age 42–43)[1]
Alma mater	University of Maryland, College Park (BS, PhD)
Known for	Bowtie[2] TopHat[3]
Awards	Overton Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Transcriptomics Cell differentiation Non-coding RNA[4]
Institutions	University of Washington Harvard University[5]
Thesis	Transcript assembly and abundance estimation with high-throughput RNA sequencing (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Steven Salzberg Lior Pachter
Website	www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/trapnell.htm