Kristi Maccready
Research Microbiologist at USDA
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolKristi Maccready is a research microbiologist with a decade of experience applying plant biology and microbiome science to improve the reliability and profitability of food production. She holds a Ph.D. in Botany/Plant Biology from Michigan State University and has progressed from undergraduate research at Penn State Erie through graduate and postdoctoral work at Michigan State and the University of Michigan to a research role at the USDA. Her work bridges pathogen biology, plant gene expression, and microbial community dynamics, translating fundamental discoveries into practical agricultural outcomes. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, she combines rigorous academic training with applied research in government settings, and often focuses on interdisciplinary approaches that reveal nonobvious interactions between plant genetics and microbial ecology.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology, General at Penn State Erie, The Behrend CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Botany/Plant Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Botany/Plant Biology at Michigan State University
English
Github Skills (34)
inverse9
bioinformatics9
microbiome9
biostatistics9
computational-biology9
sparse8
covariance8
biology8
statistical-inference7
classifiers7
phyloseq6
environmental6
sequence5
genomics5
sequencing5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gdanetzk/compare_taxonomy
May 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 102 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
gdanetzk/UMich_Bio201_F19
Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Main repository for Bio 201: Biostatistics of the human microbiome
Contributions:77 commits, 73 pushes in 3 months
biologyhuman-microbiomebioinformaticsmicrobiomecomputational-biology
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