Jeff Vierstra
Investigator
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Vierstra is an investigator at the Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences with eight years of research experience focused on high-resolution mapping of chromatin structure and function to reveal how non-coding variation influences disease and traits. He earned a Ph.D. in Genome Sciences from the University of Washington after a genetics undergraduate degree at UW–Madison, and progressed through graduate and senior research roles at UW before joining Altius. His work blends experimental genomics with computational analysis to pinpoint regulatory mechanisms in non-coding DNA, often pushing resolution limits to link variants to phenotype. Based in Seattle, he combines deep domain expertise with a track record of translationally relevant discovery, and maintains an investigative approach that bridges basic science and potential clinical impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genome Sciences/Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Genome Sciences/Genomics at University of WashingtonBachelor's degree, Genetics, Bachelor's degree, Genetics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
11reputation
5kreached
1answer
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Github Skills (32)
rna-seq10
clustering10
qt9
tabix9
samtools9
pysam9
bioinformatics9
gtk9
bcftools9
genomics9
htslib9
fasta8
python8
matplotlib8
data-science7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vierstralab/nf-index
Jun 2021 - Aug 2023
Nextflow pipeline to construct a chromatin accessibility peak index
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
jvierstra/jvierstra.github.io
Aug 2019 - Jun 2025
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Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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