Bio Sketch: ========== As an undergraduate, Dr. Gallagher attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. While obtaining her B.A. in math and computer science, she performed research in computational geometry. She graduated in 2003 summa cum laude with highest honors in computer science. She did her graduate work at the University of Colorado Boulder, earning her master's degree in 2007 and her PhD in 2010. Her thesis work was "Graph Connectivity: Approximation Algorithms and Applications to Protein-Protein Interaction Networks." While she was a PhD student, she served as a fellow on an NSF GK12 grant and developed a curriculum to teach computational biology to Advanced Placement Biology students. The unit she helped develop is still being taught in a Colorado high school and has reportedly increased both the number of girls taking computer classes and the number of boys taking biology, increasing the diversity of both classes. Since graduating, she has done postdoctoral work at the University of Colorado, working on variants of the Mediator complex as well as using hypergraphs to model biological data. She has also mentored multiple students starting their research careers, including master's students, undergraduates, and highly capable high school students.