Kelly Teitel
Bioengineering PhD Candidate
Evanston, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Teitel is a Bioengineering PhD candidate at MIT with nine years of research experience focused on engineering microbes for sustainable bioproduction and bioremediation. A Northwestern University graduate and former research technician, she has hands-on expertise in metabolic modeling, CRISPR tool development for Yarrowia lipolytica, and optimizing biodegradation of plastics. Her work spans environmental biotechnology and developmental biology, reflecting a rare interdisciplinary blend that informs both applied metabolic engineering and fundamental gene regulation studies. At Northwestern she mentored REU students and led projects that translate lab-scale metabolic insights into scalable microbial processes. Driven by practical outcomes, she combines quantitative modeling with wet-lab strain engineering to push toward circular, value-added solutions for plastic waste.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hopkinton High SchoolBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Northwestern University
Github Skills (17)
summarization10
mass10
r-package10
exploratory10
pca10
mass-spectrometry10
exploratory-data-analysis10
data-normalization10
normalization10
data-transformation10
correlation10
specification10
bioconductor10
filtering10
transformation10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pmartR/pmartR
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
The pmartR R package provides functionality for quality control, normalization, exploratory data analysis, and statistical analysis of mass spectrometry (MS) omics data, in particular proteomic (either at the peptide or the protein level), lipidomic, and metabolomic data.
Contributions:48 reviews, 341 commits, 126 PRs in 6 years 4 months
particularbioconductormetabolitesmetabolomics-datasummarization
pmartR/pmartRdata
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 58 commits, 17 PRs in 6 years 4 months
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