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M.S. in Biological Sciences

• Master's thesis
  • Landscape Genomics of White-Footed Mice (Peromyscus leucopus) Along An Urban-To-Rural Gradient in the New York City Metropolitan Area
  • Advisor: Jason Munshi-South

B.S. in Biological Sciences

• Dean's List & cum laude
• Minors in Classical Civilization, Philosophy

Bioinformatics Support Specialist

• Long read genome assembly
  • Genome assembly of >100 vertebrate species using PacBio HiFi long reads, with scaffolding using optical maps and Hi-C contacts
  • Worked with PacBio and Oxford Nanopore software suites for basecalling, demultiplexing, CCS
  • NCBI submission experience: whole genome sequence objects, BioProjects, BioSamples, and Sequence Read Archive (SRA) objects
• Galaxy platform
  • Installed/managed a multi-user, production-quality Galaxy server interfacing with our institution’s Slurm cluster, involving customized job destinations and local tools
  • PostGreSQL database maintenance, writing & maintaining Galaxy tool wrappers for various software
• General bioinformatic/computational experience
  • conda and pip for software/environment management
  • Version control and collaborative coding using git (working on branches, pull requests, rebasing, merging)
  • Managed AWS users, groups, and policies for an account with multiple buckets where users require different, bucket-specific permissions

Research Assistant

• Population genomics of Mastacembelus and Danakilia species using ddRAD-seq data using stacks, ddocent, and downstream analyses

Graduate Studies

• Whole-exome sequencing of Peromyscus spp. data: cutadapt, bwa, GATK, vcftools, pcadapt, LEA/LFMM, BayeScan, bash & R scripting
• Spatial analysis of environmental variables and map-making: ArcGis and QGIS

Hands-on course in genome sequencing, assembly, and downstream analyses

• Aided practicals using real nematode data on UseGalaxyEU infrastructure for an in-person class size of ~30
• Gave interactive lectures showing students how to use the UseGalaxy interface for analyses, adapting the lesson plan on the fly to address areas where the class had more questions

Assembly and Annotation of Genomes course

• Led hands-on exercises with simulated yeast data using UseGalaxyEU infrastructure for an online class size of 50
• Interwove practical tasks with lecture to explain genome assembly concepts to an audience of varied experience with genome assembly and bioinformatics in general, and at various career stages
• As TA, helped students troubleshoot problems and walked through difficult concepts in different ways to facilitate students' understanding of lecture material

Long Read Genome Assembly workshop

• Delivered lecture on measuring de novo genome assembly quality, with examples of good and bad cases taken from real animal data seen in our lab, as well as with ideal human benchmarking data

Genome Assembly Workshop

• Led lectures and helped generate materials and hands-on exercises for a two-day genome assembly course hosted by the university's bioinformatics core for a general campus audience

Genetics & Introductory Biology I Lab Teaching Assistant

• Assisted with administering labs involving molecular biology techniques and statistical concepts pertaining to multiple topics in genetics, as well as fundamental biology topics such as microscopy, cellular respiration, photosynthesis, and dissections

Research Assistant / Graduate Student

• DNA extractions from fresh (rodent tail snips), degraded (frozen and dry coyote scat), and archival (museum skin & skull) samples
• Sherman live trapping for small mammals and live mouse processing: handling, tick removal, ear punches, tagging, suborbital bleed
• Destructive sampling from museum specimens (skills and skulls of Peromyscus leucopus from the early 1900s)

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University ($31,060)

• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University ($31,060)
• Student Support Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University ($595)
• Calder Center Grant, Louis Calder Center ($600)
• Travel Award for Graduate Students, Society for the Study of Evolution ($500)
• Undergraduate Travel Grant, Fordham College at Rose Hill ($800)

• Undergraduate Research Grant, Fordham College at Rose Hill ($3,800)
• Calder Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, Louis Calder Center ($2,200)

• Fordham Scholarship, Fordham College of Rose Hill ($48,145 / year)
• National Merit Scholarship ($2,000 / year)

• Galaxy Admin Training @ GTN Tapas (March 14 - 18)

• Geographic Information Systems course, Fordham University (May 23 - 27)

• Sequencing Informatics Workshop, New York Genome Center (Sept 25 - 29)