HHMI: Advancing Scientific Research & Education | Icebreaker

HHMI: Advancing Scientific Research & Education | Icebreaker

Members

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CrowdStrike | SIEM | Detection/Response | SOAR | SOC Operations

Chen-Wei Tsai, MD

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As a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, I bring over 9 years of academic experience specializing in membrane protein expression, purification, and biochemical assays. My work has contributed to the successful structural and functional determination of key proteins in the mitochondrial calcium transport system. I have a proven track record of managing complex research projects in dynamic environments, evidenced by six first or co-first author publications in prestigious journals such as Cell Reports, Nature, Molecular Cell, and PNAS. My strong communication and teamwork skills, combined with leadership experience in mentoring junior team members, underscore my commitment to advancing scientific research and fostering collaborative success.

Rajiv Sivendran, MD, MBA

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Physician | Entrepreneur

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Student of life, healer in training, aspiring surgeon-scientist.

Natalie McDonald

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Senior Solution Engineer, Financial Services at Salesforce

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Co-founder and CTO at Ceevra

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Olga Botvinnik, PhD 🇺🇦

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Studying the “dark matter” of genomes since 2017. PhD in single-cell RNA-sequencing. “Grand unified theory of cells,” hashing, sequencing weird creatures, STEM outreach. MIT, Broad Institute, UCSC, UCSD. Open science/data/source. Openly available draft manuscript for functional prediction of transcriptomic “dark matter” across species available here: Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.09.450799v1 Code: https://github.com/czbiohub/scrnaseq-for-the-99-percent Avid open source software (OSS) contributor in Python and Nextflow langauges (https://github.com/olgabot). * Contributed to 17 OSS repos * Created 19 libraries, 7 in the last year Popular libraries: Sencha, creator https://github.com/czbiohub/sencha Sencha is a Python package for directly translating RNA-seq reads into coding protein sequence. Core member, nf-core https://nf-co.re/ https://github.com/nf-core/kmermaid (created), https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq (contributed) Contributed to a community effort to collect a curated set of analysis pipelines built using Nextflow. Sourmash, maintainer https://github.com/dib-lab/sourmash Compute and compare MinHash signatures for DNA data sets. Seaborn, contributor https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn Statistical data visualization using matplotlib. Prettyplotlib, creator https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib Painlessly create beautiful matplotlib plots.

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Misc musings: https://marketdiary.substack.com/ Side hobby of prediction markets

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I'm a machine learning research engineer and former practicing physician. My scientific passion is in the training of large neural networks. I enjoy communicating scientific concepts in an empathetic yet technically meaningful way.