Harriet Dashnow
Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolHarriet Dashnow is an assistant professor and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience building algorithms for clinical genomics, with a deep niche in Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis. She completed a PhD and MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Melbourne and spent five years as a postdoc in the Quinlan Lab at the University of Utah before joining University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Harriet combines strong software engineering skills (Python, R, Unix, Git, Bash) with hands-on genomics pipeline development and a history of producing tools used in pathogen and clinical sequencing workflows. She is an experienced instructor who has developed Carpentries lessons and taught genomics and algorithms at the university level, translating complex methods into practical training. Her background spans wet-lab experience through to algorithm design, which gives her uncommon insight into both biological constraints and computational solutions. Based in Denver, she brings a pragmatic, research-driven approach to deploying reproducible genomics software for clinical and public-health applications.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), 95.90 ENTER, Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE), 95.90 ENTER at Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial SchoolThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (92)
ecology10
knitr10
genomics10
r10
data-wrangling10
data-visualization10
genome10
stable10
r-package10
sequencing10
rmarkdown10
nim-lang10
data-visualisation10
combine10
binder10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hdashnow/python_for_bioinformatics
Mar 2014 - Oct 2020
A introductory BioPython tutorial for Bioinformatics students
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
pythonbioinformaticsintroductorybiopythoncomputational-biology
hdashnow/CEPH-K1463-TandemRepeats
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:14 PRs, 55 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year 2 months
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