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.