Tara Furstenau
Assistant Research Professor at Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolTara Furstenau is an Assistant Research Professor at Northern Arizona University with 12 years of experience developing computational and statistical methods for genomic sequence analysis. She leads bioinformatics efforts in the Fofanov lab, building PCR amplicon pathogen detection panels and metagenomic pipelines that achieve species-level classification in complex samples. Her Ph.D. work in computational biology examined isolation-by-distance and produced simulations and statistical tools for spatial population genetics, work she maintains on GitHub. Comfortable bridging theory and applied pipelines, she combines rigorous methodological development with hands-on implementation for real-world pathogen detection and biodiversity studies.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Biology at Arizona State University
Github Skills (22)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
binning9
multiplex9
xor7
travis7
optimization5
manjaro5
vehicle-routing-problem4
python4
stable4
shell4
documentation4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tfursten/out_on_a_LIMS
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
Laboratory information management system
Contributions:185 PRs, 205 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
laboratorymanagement-systeminformation-managementinformation-management-system
FofanovLab/wgfast
Jun 2018 - Jan 2020
Whole genome focused array SNP typer
Contributions:4 releases, 4 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year 7 months
arraygenomegenomicstyperbioinformatics
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