| Cole Trapnell | |
| Birth Name: | Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. |
| Fields: | Transcriptomics Cell differentiation Non-coding RNA |
| Workplaces: | University of Washington Harvard University |
| Alma Mater: | University of Maryland, College Park (BS, PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Transcript assembly and abundance estimation with high-throughput RNA sequencing |
| Thesis Url: | https://search.proquest.com/docview/725751445 |
| Thesis Year: | 2010 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Steven Salzberg Lior Pachter |
| Awards: | Overton Prize (2018) |
Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. (born 1982) is an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. 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.[1]