Kathryn Kananen
Bioinformatician II
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKathryn Kananen is a Bioinformatician II with a decade of hands-on experience bridging wet lab, fieldwork, and computational research, currently supporting genomics and phylogenetics at The Ohio State University. She specializes in structural variation and transposable elements, exploring their roles in somatic change and treatment response, and has deep experience transforming and harmonizing diverse 'omic datasets for downstream analysis. Proficient in Python, Bash, R, and Java, she routinely builds reproducible automated workflows and has developed tools including a de novo assembly utility (Recontig) and maintained large pancancer cBioPortal projects. Her background spans plant and human systems, from soybean and maize greenhouse work to clinical genomics, and she contributes to teaching and collaborative research while publishing and sharing code on GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Colorado State UniversityPikes Peak Community CollegeNUPACE Japan Study Abroad Program., Bioinformatics, 4th Year Undergraduate, NUPACE Japan Study Abroad Program., Bioinformatics, 4th Year Undergraduate at Nagoya UniversityMaster's degree, Applied Bioinformatics, Master's degree, Applied Bioinformatics at Cranfield UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Bachelor’s Degree, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University
English, Spanish, Japanese, python, r, java, bash
Github Skills (61)
biology10
package-management10
cancer-genomics10
conda10
chemistry10
bioinformatics10
population-genetics10
comparative-genomics10
bioconda10
genes9
filesystem9
nmf9
seq9
metagenomics9
science9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pbradleylab/rnaseq-quantification-pipeline
Jul 2023 - Apr 2025
Developmental private RNASeq pipeline for bacterial quantification.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 7 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Kekananen/Undergraduate
Feb 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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