About Me

I am a bioinformatician interested in identifying epigenetic changes associated with stem cell differentiation, healthy tissue development, and cancer progression.

As a postdoctoral fellow in the Gallo Lab at the University of Calgary, I generate and analyze various forms of sequencing data related to brain tumor biology. Our current work focuses on pediatric brain tumors including ependymoma, medulloblastoma, and high-grade glioma.

Sequencing approaches employed for this work include:

  • Whole genome sequencing (WGS)

  • RNA-seq (bulk and single-cell)

  • ATAC-seq (bulk and single-cell)

  • ChIP-seq

  • Hi-C

  • Nanopore long-reads

  • 10x Genomics linked-read DNA

My previous research addressed stem cell differentiation within the mouse intestine (Magness Lab, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and the fruit fly ovary (Nystul Lab, University of California - San Francisco). My experience with different model systems and genetic tools continues to inform my research today.