Kelly Eckenrode
Science Teacher at Massachusetts Department of Correction
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolKelly Eckenrode is an experienced science educator and researcher with a decade of experience bridging molecular biology, microbiome informatics, and classroom instruction. She holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and built bugphyzz, a standardized database of tens of thousands of bacterial physiologies to enable high-throughput microbiome analyses. Kelly has translated her bench skills—from microbiology assays to small-molecule screens at Harvard T.H. Chan—into hands-on curricula for diverse learners across K-12 and correctional education settings. As Program Director at The Pathway Initiative and a current Science Teacher at the Massachusetts Department of Correction, she focuses on practical lab skills and scientific inquiry that empower students with real-world laboratory experience. Her work is informed by a knack for using ontologies and data-driven tools to make complex biological concepts accessible, and she intentionally blends research rigor with pedagogy to prepare learners for scientific thinking and careers.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The City University of New YorkBachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMass BostonPhD Molecular Biology, PhD Molecular Biology at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkBiotechnology, Biotechnology at Harvard Extension School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
bioconductor9
bioinformatics9
ncbi8
biodiversity7
bacteria7
microbiome6
datasets6
metagenomics5
taxonomy5
multimodal4
semantic-web1
linked-data1
ontologies1
linked-open-data1
hypermedia1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kbeckenrode/SingleCellMultiModal
Jan 2021 - May 2023
Single Cell multimodal data scripts for downloading datasets
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
downloadingmultimodal-datamultimodaldatasetssingle-cell
kbeckenrode/kbeckenrode.github.io
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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