Sarah Preheim
Associate Professor
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarah Preheim is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University with 13 years of experience studying microbial ecology and the functions of complex bacterial communities in aquatic systems. Trained with a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from MIT, she blends field ecology with next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics methods developed during a postdoc at MIT. Her work spans fundamental discovery—identifying key genes and community interactions—to building analytic pipelines that translate high-throughput data into ecological insight. Based in Baltimore, she brings a rare combination of hands-on lab experience (from pathogen transcriptomics to immune cell assays) and computational expertise, enabling cross-disciplinary collaborations. Colleagues value her ability to turn messy environmental datasets into testable hypotheses about microbial function and ecosystem impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biological Oceanography, Ph.D., Biological Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S., Biological Sciences, B.S., Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
binning3
dbus2
bioinformatics2
ack2
zeromq1
pipeline1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
spacocha/Distribution-based-clustering
Dec 2012 - Nov 2018
Contributions:72 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years 11 months
spacocha/dbOTUcaller
Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 10 pushes, 2 issues in 2 years
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