Kaitlin Flynn
Senior R&D Program Manager at Absci
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKaitlin Flynn is a Senior R&D Program Manager and trained bacteriologist with a decade of experience translating microbiome and multi-omics research into actionable programs across industry and academia. She holds a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology and has led scientific coordination and data management at organizations including Sage Bionetworks, insitro, and Absci while maintaining hands-on bioinformatics expertise in microbiome, single-cell, and metagenomic analyses. Her work spans postdoctoral research modeling colon microbiomes and projects on microbial community assembly and colorectal cancer, plus consultancy delivering client-ready 16S and shotgun metagenomics reports. Comfortable bridging technical and organizational domains, she has steered cross-functional teams, university governance, and postdoc leadership initiatives. Based in Portland with Seattle-targeted opportunities in mind, she combines deep domain knowledge with program-level delivery skills to propel computational biology and biotech projects toward measurable impact. An often-overlooked strength is her sustained client-facing analysis experience, which sharpens her ability to communicate complex results to non-specialist stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology at University of Michigan Medical SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biochemistry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Biochemistry at Earlham College
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SchlossLab/Flynn_LRColon_CancPrevRes_2017
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:163 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
FOXFOXFOX/schlosslab.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
university-of-michiganjekylllabmichigan
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