Title Bioinformatics Specialist Company Kansas State University Bio Teresa Shippy is a bioinformatics specialist in the Kansas-INBRE Bioinformatics Core. She received her PhD in Biology from Kansas State University and then spent 10 years researching developmental genetics in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. She became interested in genomics when the Tribolium genome was sequenced and is now focused on helping other researchers with their bioinformatics needs.