(Contractor)
Education:
M.P.H., 2015, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
B.A., 2012, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Biography
Katie joined Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB) as a Metagenomics Specialist in December 2022 and works remotely in California. She received her Master's of Public Health in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from University of California, Berkeley where she studied associations between childhood leukemia, early-life exposures, and genetics. During her studies, she became interested in how microbiomes contribute to human health, and after completing the M.P.H. program, joined a research lab at UC San Francisco. There, she learned to harness sequencing technologies to interrogate microbes in a culture-independent manner and led several studies with a strong focus on upper airway and gut microbiomes in childhood allergy and asthma. Her current work at Bioinformatics and Computational Bioscience Branch (BCBB) supports studies of the human microbiome across the institute, leveraging many different data types from microbes and their human hosts to answer biological and clinical questions.