Alexandra Linz
Associate Research Scientist
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandra Linz is an Associate Research Scientist with a decade of experience applying next-generation sequencing and data science to infectious diseases endemic to Wisconsin, including Lyme disease and blastomycosis. Based in Madison, she combines hands-on molecular biology and field sampling with reproducible bioinformatics workflows in R, Python, and Bash to support clinical and ecological studies. Her background spans academic and translational research—from dissecting freshwater microbiomes during her PhD to engineering lignin-converting microbes as a postdoc—giving her a rare blend of environmental genomics and pathogen-focused inquiry. At Marshfield Clinic Health System she translates genomic insights into improved patient care, contributing to projects in human genomics as well as regional infectious disease surveillance. Colleagues rely on her for high-throughput data analysis, lab management, and grant-writing experience that keeps complex studies on track.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology at University of Wisconsin-Madison
German
Github Skills (9)
biodiversity9
ecology9
transcriptomics8
python3
lakes2
protocols1
taxonomy1
ecosystem1
database1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
McMahonLab/MAGstravaganza
May 2016 - Dec 2018
Investigation of how freshwater nutrient cycling is linked at the organism level
Contributions:158 commits, 8 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 7 months
investigationbiodiversityorganismfreshwaterecology
alexlinz/geodes
May 2016 - Aug 2019
Diel transcriptomics of freshwater lakes
Contributions:189 pushes in 3 years 3 months
transcriptomicslakesfreshwater
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