Research technician at the Tufts University Center for Cellular Agriculture (Kaplan Lab). BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Lewis & Clark College, MS in Computer Science from Tufts.
I started in wet lab work (cell culture, protein biochemistry, microscopy) and transitioned into computational biology and bioinformatics. Now I build pipelines and tools to support the lab's genomics research, and founded the lab's GitHub organization to centralize our informatics work.
Currently working on:
- claude-nfcore-docs: a Claude Code skill that loads nf-core specs into context for AI-assisted pipeline development
- Contributor to ToolUniverse, an MCP server providing 2,200+ scientific API tools
- Adapting nf-core/funcscan for plant biosynthetic gene cluster and antimicrobial peptide screening, and looking to contribute plant-relevant modules back to nf-core
- Supporting lab projects with nf-core pipelines (rnaseq, fetchngs, differentialabundance, sarek, proteinfold) and exploring proteindesign and proteindj
Side projects:
- World Climbing Fantasy: fantasy league for competitive climbing
- survivor-fantasy: Survivor fantasy league webapp (Flask, Docker, Tailscale)