Research

Research Programmer - Data Scientist

Dr. Aly Karsan Lab, BC Cancer Research Institute, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC)
2022 - Present

• Developing and executing bioinformatics pipelines for next-generation sequencing
  • single-cell ATAC sequencing (scATAC-seq)
  • single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq)
  • single-cell ADT sequencing (scADT-seq)
  • all three combined (DOGMA-seq)
• Prenatal aneuploidy screening with copy number variation calling using cell-free fetal DNA in maternal blood

Graduate Student

Birol Lab, Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC)
2019 - 2022

• Developed and executed an anti-microbial peptide (AMP) discovery pipeline using various bioinformatics tools and 84 RNA-seq datasets
• Conducted differential expression analysis and secondary structure characterization of discovered AMPs

Student Intern

Bioinformatics Technology Lab (BTL), Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (GSC)
2018 - 2019

• Conducted homology search to discover AMP sequences in four different spruce genomes and transcriptomes
• Completed differential expression analysis of discovered AMP sequences across various tissues and conditions of the four spruce species
• Assembled and annotated two spruce chloroplast genomes