Patricia Tran
Research Cyberinfrastructure Specialist II (Computational Bioinformatics Pipeline Scientist)
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPatricia Tran is a PhD-trained bioinformatician and computational pipeline scientist with nine years of experience translating microbial ecology research into scalable, reproducible analyses on shared high-performance cyberinfrastructure. At UW–Madison she consults with labs across campus to design standardized Nextflow and containerized pipelines, teach HPC best practices, and integrate microbiological datasets with high-throughput computing to accelerate publications and grants. Her background spans fieldwork, wet-lab assays, and large-scale metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis, giving her a rare ability to bridge experimental design and production-grade computational workflows. She has coauthored over ten peer-reviewed papers and routinely measures project impact by tracking outcomes such as labs served, trainees, and deliverables. Comfortable automating complex analyses with Bash, R, Python, and workflow managers, she leverages teaching and mentoring experience to upskill researchers. An interesting thread through her career is combining inquiry-based teaching with research—she has designed curricula and assessed student learning while scaling research pipelines for diverse scientific teams.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMaster of Science - MS Biology, Master of Science - MS Biology at Concordia UniversityDiplôme d'étude collégiales Pure and Applied Science, Diplôme d'étude collégiales Pure and Applied Science at Champlain College Saint LambertGraduate Certificate Bioinformatics, Graduate Certificate Bioinformatics at McGill University
French, English, Vietnamese
Github Skills (43)
throughput10
bioinformatics10
minhash9
scalable9
pathogen8
metagenomics8
binning8
calculator7
assembly7
genomics7
fasta6
bacteria6
pypi6
bioconda6
immunology6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
patriciatran/Nitrogen_Project
Feb 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
rrohwer/MyMendota
Aug 2019 - Apr 2024
Scripts for visualizing Lake Mendota data to use with McMahon Lab and NTL-LTER outreach.
Contributions:21 pushes, 9 comments, 6 issues in 4 years 8 months
lakepythonltervisualizingoutreach
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