Summary
Stephen Beckstrom-sternberg is a bioinformatics scientist with over a decade of experience applying genomics, teaching, and computational analysis in public health and academic settings. He has led bioinformatics teams at TGen and the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, taught biology and bioinformatics at Northern Arizona University and community colleges, and now applies his expertise at the Arizona Department of Health Services. A botanist by training (MS, PhD) and an associate Master Gardener, he brings a rare combination of plant science roots and genomic informatics. Recently emerging from semi-retirement, he is reinvesting his energy into genomic sequence analysis and exploring AI/ML integration in bioinformatics, pursuing online research collaborations.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Botany, Master of Science (MS), Botany at UC Riverside
PhD, Botany, PhD, Botany at Claremont Graduate University
Spanish