Bonita Lam
Bioinformatics Scientist
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBonita Lam is a bioinformatics scientist with a PhD in biological sciences and eight years of experience applying electrochemical and molecular techniques to study environmental microbial communities. She combines hands-on lab expertise—from culturing novel microbes and analytical chemistry to sequencing—with computational analysis of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic datasets. At Agilent she translates complex biological data into actionable insights, building on prior roles curating scientific data at Stanford and leading metagenomic investigations as a USC postdoc. She has taught at both community college and university levels, reflecting strong communication skills for diverse audiences. Notably, her work bridges experimental enrichment of electroactive biofilms with bioinformatic pipelines, enabling discovery at the interface of microbiology and data science.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at University of Southern CaliforniaB.S., Molecular Environmental Biology, B.S., Molecular Environmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (26)
database10
ontology9
anatomy9
transcriptomics9
geneontology9
monarchinitiative9
owl9
genomics8
semantic-web8
bioinformatics8
genomics-visualization7
computational-biology6
population-genetics6
sequencing4
comparative-genomics4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bonitalam/uberon
Feb 2020 - Oct 2020
uber-anatomy ontology
Contributions:8 pushes in 8 months
obofoundryanatomyuberanatomy-ontology
bonitalam/hello-world
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Just a demo repository
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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