Selin Jessa
Postdoctoral Scientist at Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSelin Jessa is a computational biologist and postdoctoral scientist at Stanford with 11 years of experience applying single-cell genomics and machine learning to questions of brain development and disease. Trained in quantitative life sciences (PhD, McGill) with a joint background in computer science and biology, she builds data-driven pipelines to map cell-of-origin and oncogenic mechanisms in pediatric brain tumors and to assemble developmental scRNA-seq atlases. Her work spans scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, multi-modal single-cell assays, bulk epigenomics (ChIP-seq, Hi-C) and custom integration strategies that connect model systems to patient multi-omic data. At Stanford she combines rigorous computational method development with an interest in open science and functional genomics, bringing tools and reference atlases that enable reproducible analysis. Notably, she has developed and released Bioconductor tooling (chromswitch) early in her career, showing a pattern of producing reusable software alongside biological insights. Based in Palo Alto, she brings both deep technical fluency and domain expertise to translational questions about how cells decide their fates.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Quantitative Life Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Quantitative Life Sciences at McGill University
Github Skills (27)
bioconductor9
galaxy8
toolbox7
genome7
bioinformatics6
portal5
sequencing5
pipeline5
infectious-diseases5
seq5
visualization5
evolution4
gene-expression4
genomics4
rna-seq4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sjessa/chromswitch-analysis
Sep 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:2 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
sjessa/rr
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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