Mary Richardson Email & Phone Number

Somerville, MA, US

Cambridge, MA

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Independently proposed and designed a computational approach to detect non-canonical translation events from transcriptomics and proteomics data
• Developed a hidden Markov model (HMM) to infer translated open reading frames from ribosome footprinting data and sequence information
• Predicted novel non-canonical translation events in yeast and explored conservation of surrounding RNA sequence and structural elements

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Participated in weekly pedagogy trainings at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
• Designed and independently taught the departmental pedagogy course
• Conducted classroom observations and one-on-one consultations for graduate and postdoctoral teaching fellows
• Provided suggestions for undergraduate and graduate instruction as a member of the curriculum committee

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• Independently mentored an undergraduate student and guided senior thesis project development
• Advised junior and senior molecular and chemical biology majors on their undergraduate research projects and provided feedback on data analysis methods

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• (Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)
• Designed and taught weekly overview sessions on core methods in computational analysis of biological data
• Designed rubrics for open-ended RNA-seq data analysis problem sets and systematized grading of Jupyter Notebook submissions
• Held weekly office hours and met with students one-on-one to debug code
• Delegated teaching team responsibilities and organized weekly staff meetings

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Designed a quality control pipeline to identify contaminated microbial samples from whole genome sequencing data
• Implemented a machine learning model to flag potential contamination using genomic assembly features
• Sought input from experimental biologist end users and interfaced with software team to deploy pipeline at scale

St. Louis City, Missouri, United States

• (Summer 2013, Spring 2015, Summer 2015, Spring 2017 - Summer 2018)
• Implemented algorithms to analyze protein sequence content and patterning
• Explored sequence contexts of short linear motifs within intrinsically disordered proteins
• Predicted functionally important disordered regions using transposon insertion sequencing data and sequence composition

• Quantitative Physiology Teaching Assistant (Jan 2017 – May 2017)
• Engineering Tutor (Aug 2015 – May 2016)
• Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Problem Solving Team Leader (Aug 2015 – Dec 2015)
• Explorations in Genomics Teaching Assistant (Aug 2015 – Dec 2015)
• Computer Science I Teaching Assistant (Aug 2014 – Dec 2015)

Greater St. Louis Area

• Developed a workflow to assess the prediction accuracy of a genotype imputation algorithm
• Prepared maize genotype and phenotype data for identification of deleterious alleles
• Produced an interactive R Shiny app for maize quantitative trait loci and transgene insertion sites

• Generated multiple sequence alignments to investigate Hantavirus phylogeny
• Automated the process of downloading sequences and cataloging attributes for select GenBank entries
• Assessed nucleotide and amino acid mutation rates for each viral protein

• Constructed programs to predict potential miRNA and siRNA target sequences
• Examined protein and mRNA expression levels using western blotting and RT-PCR

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Systems Biology

B.S, Biomedical Engineering

High School Diploma, Math Science Technology Magnet Program