Matt Donne
Matt is a 4th year graduate student in the Dr. Jason Rock's lab focusing on adult lung regeneration. The Cell Hackers club had its humble beginnings inside Matt's brain. He has been thrilled with its manifestation into reality. His interest in coding came about through both necessity and curiosity.
Melissa Quino McCreery
Melissa is a 3rd year BMS graduate student in Allan Balmain's lab, focusing on cancer genetics and the clonality and evolution of tumors. She was previously founder of and a developer at The Muse, where she taught herself to code, and is now excited to be applying those skills to computational biology.
Nicolas Strauli
Nicolas is a 4th year graduate student in Ryan Hernandez's lab. He is investigating the evolutionary interaction between a host's population of antibodies and infectious pathogens during an infection. To do this he is using ultra-deep sequencing of these two populations, and using Python and R to sift through the data.
Bryne Ulmschneider
Bryne is a 4th year graduate student in Todd Nystul's lab studying stem cell biology with a focus on quantitative microscopy to measure pH inside of cells. She taught herself to code in R because she could make prettier graphs in R than in excel. She is excited about learning more R and Python.
Ian Driver
Ian is a postdoctoral scholar in Jason Rock's lab, focusing on profiling the adult lung stem cell niche during injury and regeneration using single cell RNA-sequencing. Ian started programming in Matlab while studying Chemical Engineering at MIT and became a self-taught Python devotee during his graduate work at Columbia University, while researching intestinal stem cells in Drosophila.