Elizabeth Mcdaniel
Founder & CSO at Microcosm Foods
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolElizabeth Mcdaniel is a scientist-turned-founder with a decade of hands-on experience translating microbiology, multi-omics, and computational biology into commercial-grade fermented functional ingredients. As Founder & CSO of Groat Bio and a computational biologist at Microcosm Foods, she designs reproducible Nextflow workflows and leverages comparative metagenomics and machine learning to identify bioactive compounds and select starter cultures. Her background spans academia, biotech, and nonprofit labs, including postdoctoral work on anaerobic methane communities and PhD research in freshwater and wastewater microbiomes. A Certified Carpentries instructor since 2019, she champions open science and reproducibility, routinely depositing FAIR datasets and building tools that make complex analyses accessible. Based in Berkeley, she combines rigorous research standards with customer-focused product discovery at the intersection of fermentation science and gut health.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology at University of Arkansas
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Github Skills (73)
ncbi9
nomenclature9
nmf9
genomes9
bacteria9
bioinformatics9
comparative-genomics9
population-genetics9
metagenomics9
genome-assembly8
taxonomy8
phylogenetics8
cytoscapejs8
mothur7
genomics7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Arcadia-Science/metagenomics
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A Nextflow workflow for QC, evaluation, and profiling of metagenomic samples using short- and long-read technologies
Contributions:1 release, 91 reviews, 42 commits in 2 months
profilingpipelinetechnologiesevaluationnextflow-workflow
ComBEE-UW-Madison/PythonStudyGroup
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
ComBEE Python Study Group @ UW-Madison
Contributions:34 commits, 13 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 years 3 months
uw-madisonpythonstudy-group
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