Sarah Lucas
Assistant Professor at Syracuse University
City of Syracuse, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSarah Lucas is an Assistant Professor and microbiologist with 9 years of research experience studying host-associated microbial communities, from characterizing respiratory microbiota in chronic rhinosinusitis to probing anaerobic bacterial metabolism and biosynthetic potential in the human gut. Trained with a PhD from the University of Minnesota and a postdoc at the University of Michigan in Pat Schloss’s lab, she brings deep expertise in genomics and metabolism applied to complex microbial ecosystems. Her background includes genomic medicine work at the J. Craig Venter Institute and hands-on molecular research beginning as an undergraduate, reflecting a career that spans clinical, bench, and computational perspectives. Based in Syracuse, NY, she combines curiosity about anaerobes with a knack for translating genomic data into insights about microbial function and interactions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State UniversityUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (31)
r-package10
mothur10
phyloseq10
sequencing9
microbiome9
rmarkdown8
government-data8
sbml8
machine-learning8
bioinformatics8
r8
taxonomy8
snakemake7
reproducible-research7
ggplot6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sklucas/sklucas_website
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
LucasLabSU/lucas_lab_dot_org
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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