Marissa Hirst

About Marissa Hirst

I am a Computational Biologist (Bioinformatician) with over 10 years of industry…

Experience

1. Bioinformatician

   Rancho BioSciences

   Oct 2018 — Present

   Analyze spatial single cell (sc) RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, scMeDIP-seq, bulk RNA-seq, PLAC-seq and ChIP-seq including alignment, pre-processing and quality control, differential gene expression, gene set enrichment analysis and customized downstream analysis using R and/or Python• Create automated pipelines for processing Next Generation Sequencing data (WGS, RNA-Seq) quickly and efficiently utilizing tailored Docker images & workflows incorporating Python, R, and bash • Constructed an R-Shiny web application for non-bioinformaticians to analyze their bulk and single-cell RNA-Seq data in real-time with a publication in Stem Cell Reports

Education

• University of California, Davis

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

  2008 — 2013

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science

  1999 — 2003

• University of Hawaii at Manoa

  Master of Science (M.S.), Zoology

  2005 — 2008

Skills

• Pcr
• Basics of Unix
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (Qpcr)
• R
• Illustrator
• Microscopy
• Imagej
• Laboratory
• Blast
• Perl
• Immunostaining
• Molecular Biology
• Fluorescence Microscopy
• Microbiology
• Facs
• Molecular Cloning
• Site-Directed Mutagenesis
• Real-Time Pcr
• Microbial Ecology
• Arb
• Confocal Microscopy
• Cloning
• Fluorescent in Situ Hybridization
• Qpcr
• Scientific Writing
• Photoshop
• Huygens Deconvolution Software
• Fplc
• Statistics
• Molecular Genetics
• Metagenomics
• Western Blotting
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr)