Katie Saund
Scientist at Denali Therapeutics
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKatie Saund is a computational biologist and scientist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently on a career break and open to discussions. Over nine years, she has combined wet-lab training with computational analytics to advance biomarker discovery in neurodegeneration and infectious disease. In her current role at Denali Therapeutics, she handles multi-omics analyses—from bulk and single-nucleus RNA-seq to metabolomics and genomics—driving differential expression, pathway enrichment, alternative splicing, and multiomic integration using machine learning. Her prior work at the University of Michigan spanned bacterial genomics, metagenomics, tool development, and infectious diseases, and her PhD focused on identifying WGS variants linked to toxicity and patient outcomes in C. difficile infection. She also brings early oncology exposure from Merck and a track record of bridging research with translational goals, including experience with public data access management and collaborating across interdisciplinary teams. With a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from UM and degrees from Caltech and UCL, she combines rigorous academic training with practical, production-focused data science.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology and Immunology at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Biology at California Institute of TechnologyUniversity College London
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Github Skills (27)
r-package10
microbiology10
convergence10
gwas10
genomics10
r9
vignette6
python-script5
rnaseq4
seq4
population-genetics4
sequencing3
pipeline3
python-requests3
rna-seq3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
katiesaund/hogwash
Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
Three bacterial GWAS methods all rolled into one easy-to-use R package
Contributions:9 releases, 500 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years
r-packagebacterial-gwasbgwasgenomicsgwas-tools
katiesaund/simulate_data_for_convergence_based_bGWAS
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 231 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
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