Learn Basic Computing Skills to Be More Effective in the Lab

Speakers

Jason Pell, PhD

Google

Jason Pell received his PhD in Computer Science & Quantitative Biology at Michigan State University in 2013 with C. Titus Brown (now at UC Davis) as his adviser. His research focused on making DNA sequence assembly algorithms more memory efficient, especially for metagenomics applications. After graduate school, he took on a role as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services on the ElastiCache team for almost two years. He currently works as a software engineer at Google's NYC office within the Corporate Engineering organization developing internal tools for Google recruiters.

Noam Ross, PhD

EcoHealth Alliance

Noam Ross is a disease ecologist at EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO in New York City doing research at the intersection of conservation and human health. He uses theoretical and statistical approaches to study the emergence of disease in wildlife and its spillover into humans. Noam is also Associate Editor of rOpenSci, a project to build and peer-review tools for scientists to access and share data using R. He holds a PhD in ecology from the University of California-Davis.

Jennifer Shelton

New York Genome Center

Jennifer Shelton is a Bioinformatics Programmer who joined the NYGC September 2015. Jennifer studied genomics applications, chromosome and genome analysis, and bioinformatics as a Master's student at Kansas State University. After earning her degree she became the K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Outreach Coordinator where she collaborated with scientists at BioNano Genomics to develop workflows to assemble physical maps or order/orient sequence assemblies with single molecule maps. She is also interested in open science and an active Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry Instructor. At the NYGC she maintains and develops somatic variant analysis pipelines and methods.