Circum Vitae

Summary

Skilled bioinformatician with a strong background in academic research and industry. Independent and driven with the ability to learn new topics and workflows quickly and effectively. Excited to investigate complex studies in biology for academic or industrial entities.

Qualifications

• Understanding of Biology and Computer Science focusing on Molecular Genetics.

• Knowledge of R, Python, and working within Unix based systems.

• Performed Bioinformatics Analysis on Methyl-Capture sequencing, Methylation Microarray, and exome sequencing derived datasets.

• Experience and formal training in Machine Learning using R and Python and Deep Learning using the Pytorch library.

• Wet bench experience performing molecular biology and stem cell culture.

• Excellent organizational and communication skills working in collaborative projects.

• Independent and goal oriented who can quickly learn new skills to become self sufficient within a working group.

Publications

A list is also available online

2019

Corbitt, H, Gutierrez, J, Silberbach, M, Maslen, CL. The genetic basis of Turner syndrome aortopathy. Am J Med Genet Part C. 2019; 181C: 101– 109. https://doi-org.liboff.ohsu.edu/10.1002/ajmg.c.31686

Experience

Oct 2021 - present Computational Biologist (Life Science Research Professional I)

Stanford University. Palo Alto, CA

• Staff computational biologist providing computational and analytics support to ongoing projects within the group, leading to improved pipeline development and faster results delivery equipping investigators with less computational experience to deriving insight from their data.

Sep 2018 - Jun 2021 Research Assistant II

Oregon Health & Science University. Portland, OR

• Ongoing cell culture experiments on patient derived stem cell lines.
• Creation of study design for NGS Methyl Capture-seq experiment.
• Conducting data analysis on NGS Methyl Capture-seq projects.
• Main lab technician responsible for upkeep and experimentation in the lab.

May-August 2016 Manufacturing Scientist Intern II

One Lambda(ThermoFisher Scientific). Canoga Park, CA

• Assembly and testing of molecular based HLA allele typing devices (PCR, Sanger)
• Trained on manufacturing of 4 independent HLA typing products.
• Weekly maintenance of Thermo Fisher 96-capillary 3730xl DNA Analyzer.

Education

2018 - 2021

MS, Oregon Health Science University

Degree: Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine

2013 - 2016

BA, Lewis and Clark College

Degree: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Relevant Coursework

• Clinical Research Informatics

• Public Health Informatics

• Epigenetics

• Deep Learning

• Computational Genetics

• Network Biology <!—

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