Crista Moreno

I have earned a Master of Arts Degree in Mathematics from San Francisco State University, a Master of Science in Biomathematics, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington.

As an undergraduate, I performed research in genome sciences where I studied the frequency of the Duffy-O blood type in Sub-Saharan Africans and their decendants using R, a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

For my master's thesis research I studied the unlinking mechanisms of site-specific recombinases XerCD-FtsK in E. coli.

Later, my research interests grew to include algebraic topology, and applications of topology in the life sciences. Now I work as a mathematical/data scientist and statistician.

What kind of knot does the drawing below represent? Hint: Take a look at Louis H. Kauffman and Sofia Lambropoulou's paper on Collapsing Tangles. :)