Lisa Karstens
Associate Professor
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLisa Karstens is an Associate Professor and biomedical informatics researcher at Oregon Health & Science University with nine years of academic experience and a PhD in Chemistry from Princeton. She integrates neuroimaging, metabolomics, and microbiome bioinformatics to unravel mechanisms of human disease, with a focused translational interest in bladder disorders. Comfortable with Python, R, and advanced statistics, she blends computational rigor with experimental insight to drive reproducible, clinically relevant discoveries. Her trajectory from NLM postdoctoral fellow to faculty reflects deep domain expertise in medical informatics and a knack for turning complex multi-omics data into actionable hypotheses. Based in Portland, she pairs teaching and mentorship with an active research program that bridges chemistry, informatics, and clinical epidemiology.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Biomedical Informatics, Master's degree, Biomedical Informatics at Oregon Health and Science UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry at Princeton University
Github Skills (28)
phyloseq10
palette9
cvd9
microbiome9
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genomics8
removal8
bioinformatics8
r8
marker7
minimum7
sequence7
metagenomics7
data-import6
specification6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lakarstens/lakarstens.github.io
Sep 2020 - Feb 2025
Live GitHub Page at
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 years 5 months
reactshields
lakarstens/ControllingContaminants16S
May 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 comment, 2 issues in 3 years 6 months
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