Stacia Engel
Director Of Genomic Knowledgebases at Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolStacia Engel is a genomics and bioinformatics leader with 25+ years in life sciences and over two decades at Stanford, where she now directs Genomic Knowledgebases and leads the Saccharomyces Genome Database. She combines deep bench experience in genetics, molecular biology, and diagnostics with data science and project management to deliver curated, high-quality genomic resources used by researchers worldwide. She has managed multidisciplinary teams for 15+ years, driven consortium-level collaborations (Gene Ontology Consortium, Alliance of Genome Resources), and served as a program coordinator to align community standards. With 50+ publications and multiple patents, she bridges academic rigor and industry application, having translated microbial genetics and molecular diagnostics into production QA workflows in industry. Based in Palo Alto, she also contributes to scholarly publishing as managing editor for microPublication Biology, reflecting a commitment to improving reproducibility and rapid dissemination of experimental results. An underappreciated strength is her long-standing stewardship of nomenclature and reference genome maintenance, roles that quietly shape how the research community shares and interprets genetic knowledge.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at Texas A&M University-KingsvillePh.D., Genetics, Ph.D., Genetics at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (37)
genes10
metadata10
geneontology10
owl10
ontologies9
semantics9
ontology9
genome9
yaml9
rdf9
documentation8
semantic-web8
bioinformatics8
annotations7
foundry7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
srengel/go-site
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 months
gene-ontologygenemetadatardfobofoundry
srengel/OBOFoundry.github.io
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Metadata and website for the Open Bio Ontologies Foundry Ontology Registry
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
foundryontology-registryowlgeneontologyopen-science
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