Catherine Lozupone
Professor at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Golden, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCatherine Lozupone is a professor and computational biologist with 18 years of experience blending wet-lab microbial ecology with bioinformatics to study the human gut microbiome. She developed the widely used UniFrac metric during her Ph.D., continues to support its web interface, and contributes to the core QIIME project, applying rigorous statistical methods to community sequence data. Her research uniquely integrates culture-independent surveys with microbial genome sequences to link species biology to human gastrointestinal health and disease. Based in Golden, Colorado, she brings deep training in molecular evolution and microbial ecology plus practical software development experience from impactful open-source tools.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Microbiology, Master's degree, Microbiology at Colorado State UniversityPh.D., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Ph.D., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at University of Colorado at BoulderBS, Biology, BS, Biology at Villanova University
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics10
statistics10
microbiome10
analyse10
python10
statistic10
testing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
biocore/qiime
Oct 2009 - May 2013
Official QIIME 1 software repository. QIIME 2 (https://qiime2.org) has succeeded QIIME 1 as of January 2018.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:67 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Catherine primarily contributed to the QIIME 1 software repository by adding and testing code, specifically related to OTU/category significance analysis. The contributions involve implementing and testing functionality for significance tests of OTU/category associations. The user was involved in core functionalities, including parsing OTU tables, parsing category mappings, filtering OTUs, making contingency matrices, and running statistical tests.
qiimemicrobiomeanalysis
pycogent/pycogent
Dec 2007 - Sep 2010
PyCogent: Official repository for software and unit tests
Contributions:18 commits in 2 years 9 months
unit-test
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