Laura Saba
Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD Program Director at University of Colorado Denver
Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLaura Saba is a biostatistician and program director with 13+ years of experience applying advanced statistical methods to systems genetics and neuropsychiatric traits, currently leading the Pharmaceutical Sciences PhD program at the University of Colorado. She provides statistical consultation for multi-disciplinary teams studying genetic determinants of addiction, depression, and anxiety, and co-develops and maintains widely used genomic databases and in silico processing tools for mouse and rat research. Her methodological expertise spans microarray and next-generation sequencing analysis, proteomics, QTL mapping, genetic association, causal inference, and Bayesian networks, and she regularly teaches and mentors graduate students on gene expression analysis and research ethics. Based in Colorado, she pairs deep academic credentials—a PhD in Biostatistics—with hands-on informatics and programming work that supports global genomic research collaborations.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics at University of Colorado Health Sciences CenterBachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry at Colorado School of Mines
Github Skills (4)
webinar10
genetics10
bioinformatics9
quantitative9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OSGA-OPAR/quant-genetics-webinars
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Quantitative Genetics Tools for Mapping Trait Variation to Mechanisms, Therapeutics, and Interventions - Webinar Series
Contributions:29 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
traitgeneticstherapeuticswebinarbioinformatics
LauraSaba/IntroToRNASeq
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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