Lynn Sanford
Research Associate
Broomfield, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLynn Sanford is a data-driven biomedical research scientist with eight years of experience analyzing large-scale sequencing data and building scalable pipelines for RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, ATAC-Seq, MicroC and nascent sequencing. Based at the University of Colorado Boulder, she has collaborated across multiple labs, contributed to 8+ peer-reviewed papers, and led the construction and public deployment of a MySQL-backed repository (DBNascent) with a Django front end to surface metadata for over 2,800 datasets. Her work spans hands-on wet-lab experience and extensive computational tooling, and she has taught sequencing workshops and mentored students, bridging technical depth with clear communication to diverse audiences. Motivated to apply her analysis skills to problems that benefit people and the environment, she combines rigorous PhD-level biochemistry knowledge with practical software and data-management expertise.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biochemistry at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor of Arts - BA, Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Chemistry at Pomona College
Github Skills (11)
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rna-seq8
pipeline7
bioinformatics6
datasets5
nextflow5
file-transfer5
machine-learning4
pipeline-framework4
data-science3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/SRA_Tinder
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
A package to onboard data from disparate datasets into common pipelines without file transfer
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes in 1 day
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Dowell-Lab/Nascent-Flow
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Nascent Transcription Processing Pipeline
Contributions:16 commits, 22 pushes in 2 years
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