Kim Dill-mcfarland
Bioinformatics, Field Application Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Dill-mcfarland is a bioinformatics Field Application Scientist with nine years of experience translating long-read and short-read sequencing into actionable insights for infectious disease, microbiology, and human omics. Based in Seattle, she supports experimental design, reproducible analysis workflows, and customer success for Oxford Nanopore Technologies while drawing on prior leadership founding UWISDOM at the University of Washington, where she built a multidisciplinary core and maintained shared R/Python codebases. Her background spans hands-on pipeline development (bulk and single-cell RNA-seq, WGS, ATAC, methylation), training and curriculum design, and cloud-native consulting for scalable omics platforms. Passionate about reproducibility and accessibility, she blends applied data science, project management, and teaching to help labs adopt advanced sequencing methods. An active communicator and mentor, she has a PhD in Microbiology and a track record of turning complex omics datasets into publishable, interpretable results.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate Project Management Professional, Certificate Project Management Professional at University of WashingtonDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Microbiology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS Molecular and cellular biology, BS Molecular and cellular biology at University of Puget Sound
English
Github Skills (33)
seq10
rna-seq10
bam9
sarif9
bioinformatics9
microbiome9
delta8
shell5
rstudio5
stable5
r-package5
unix4
bash4
rmarkdown4
automation3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
EDUCE-UBC/workshops_access
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
Notes, scripts, and exercises for R/RStudio workshops put on through ECOSCOPE (http://ecoscope.ubc.ca/)
Contributions:1 PR, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
notesrstudiorstatsubc
kdillmcfarland/Bloom_DillMcFarland_2020
Apr 2019 - Sep 2021
Our wedding website
Contributions:13 PRs, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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