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Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Burnaby, Bc

• Built a pipeline for analyzing 16S/18S amplicon sequencing data from thousands of samples in R using DADA2 on a high-performance computer cluster • Performed downstream analysis of amplicon sequencing results including data visualization and statistical analysis in R and the application of machine learning methods in Python • Developed multiple web apps using the Shiny R package for our collaborators to visualise and explore the data, which resulted in meaningful biological insights

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Richmond, British Columbia

• Worked with a senior Bioinformatician to provide analysis of Illumina sequencing data to ABM customers• Constructed and implemented pipelines using Python, Perl, R, and Bash for a range of analyses including RNA-Seq, whole exome sequencing, 16S amplicon sequencing, CRISPR-Cas9 pooled library screens, and de novo transcript assembly • Wrote a custom Python script for MHC allele genotyping using bwa, samtools, and pysam

Burnaby, Bc

• Assisted with the discovery and validation of candidate genes for rare diseases such as congenital insensitivity to pain, erythromelalgia, and cluster headache• Contributed to bioinformatics analyses by streamlining multiple pre-existing bioinformatics scripts and implementing a novel structural variant detection pipeline using R, Python, and Linux • Performed laboratory techniques including PCR, allelic discrimination assays, sanger sequencing, and genotyping with allele specific primers

Port Coquitlam, Bc

• Tutored high school students one-on-one in math, chemistry, and biology resulting in increases in student confidence and performance• Adapted to a wide variety of learning styles to ensure maximum student achievement

Revelstoke, Bc

Vancouver, Bc

Burnaby, Bc

Burnaby, Bc

Burnaby, Bc

• Conducted computer analysis of flight performance in fledgling European starlings including measurement and calculation of take-off angle, velocity, and energy gain • Analyzed results of analysis in R and wrote report on the relationship between fledgling flight performance and brood size and body mass for course credit

Master Of Science - Ms, Bioinformatics

UBC-SFU Bioinformatics Training Program

Bachelor’S Degree, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology (Honours), 4.22/4.33 Cgpa

First Class with Distinction

Marine Biology And Biological Oceanography

Field courses counted towards credit for my BSc from SFU: 1. Ecological Models & Data (2014) 2. Sex & Evolution (2015)

High School

Completed IB Diploma program