Bio
I am currently a Staff Scientist at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development in Leonardo Collado-Torres’ Data Science Team. I’ve been at LIBD since Spring 2020.
At LIBD, I work on bulk and single nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) analysis, and leading the innovation of cell type deconvolution methods, pairing Single-Molecule Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (smFISH) imaging and snRNA-seq data. I am currently working on spatial transcriptomic data from the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. I also mentor LIBD staff through Data Science guidance sessions.
I earned a Professional Science Master’s in Bioinformatics from Temple University in 2019, after a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and minor in Computer Science in 2018. During my time at Temple university I was involved in research at the Institute of Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine with Sudhir Kumar, studying phylogenetic applications to study evolutary timing for species divergence, viral diseases, and cancer cell evolution.
Education
Temple University | Philadelphia PA
Professional Science Master’s in Bioinformatics | 2018 - 2019
Bachelors of Science in Biology | 2014 - 2018
Experience
Lieber Institute for Brain Development | Staff Scientist I, Data Science | July 2022 - Present
Lieber Institute for Brain Development | Research Associate | April 2020 - July 2022
iGEM @ Temple University | Technical Support Assistant | July 2018 - April 2020
iGEM @ Temple University | Undergraduate Research Assistant | June 2015 - July 2018
Presentaions
Slides and posters and available on my speakerdeck
Publications
Data-driven identification of total RNA expression genes for estimation of RNA abundance in heterogeneous cell types highlighted in brain tissue
Pre-print DOI: 10.1101/2022.04.28.489923
My first first-author paper is now in published by Genome Biology! This pairs with my first Bioconductor R package TREG
Integrated single cell and unsupervised spatial transcriptomic analysis defines molecular anatomy of the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Pre-print DOI: 10.1101/2023.02.15.528722
Exciting new work on spatial transcritomics & snRNA-seq in the human DLPFC!
Explore this data at research.libd.org/spatialDLPFC/
You can find my full publications list on ORCiD or Google Scholar