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Boston, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

• Develop, test, and deploy visualizations and dashboards for use by the Oncology Bioinformatics, INT Engineering, and Research & Early Discovery team in support of INT activities.• Refactor or improve upon existing prototyped analytical scripts that generate reports from bioinformatics experimental analysis.• Develop, test, and deploy visualizations in either Domino Data Labs as either Shiny or Dash applications or other relevant platform to serve small teams of users with robust, scalable performance.• Develop, test, and deploy visualizations in either Tableau Cloud or Spotfire Cloud for use across Research & Early Discovery.• Work with Bioinformatics Engineering colleagues to understand ETL processes and bioinformatics pipelines deployed on various Compute platforms to enable creation or improvement of visualizations.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Dissertation: Computational Approaches to Discover and Characterize Transcription Regulatory Complex Binding from Protein-Binding Microarray-Based ExperimentsAdvisor: Dr. Trevor Siggers, Associate Professor, Boston University Department of BiologyRotations:Summer 2015 - Dr. James Galagan (experimental)Fall 2015 - Dr. Joseph Mizgerd / Dr. Evan Johnson (computational)Spring 2016 - Dr. Trevor Siggers (computational)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ca

Focus: Investigated whether prebiotics can change the composition and diversity of the gut microbiome in the elderly• responsible for coordination and day-to-day progress of the ongoing clinical trial• performed routine quantitative assays on participant samples• ensured all patient samples are processed and all results were recordedSupervisor: Dr. Michelle Alfa, Principal Investigator, Infectious Diseases, Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Focus: Investigated practical uses of citizen science in computational molecular biology research• Wrote Python scripts to process genomic DNA multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) for use in the Phylo video gameSupervisor: Dr. Jérôme Waldispühl, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Focus: Investigated the ability of disordered protein regions to mask evolutionary relationships between sequences.• Wrote computer programs to edit protein sequences based on the presence of certain regions• Compared these modified protein sequences against database entries using existing software• Challenged the findings of our group using pseudo-random manipulations of open-source dataSupervisor: Dr. Paul M. Harrison, Associate Professor, Department of Biology

Montreal, Qc, Ca

Focus: Characterized miRNA expression in murine dendritic cells.Supervisor: Dr. Connie M. Krawczyk, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Microbiology And Immunology

Dec, Science - 200.B0

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