Krista Ternus
Bioinformatics Manager
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrista Ternus is a Bioinformatics Manager in Austin with eight years of focused experience translating genomics into actionable science for forensic and research applications. At Signature Science she progressed from laboratory scientist to manager and science advisor, building and directing bioinformatics pipelines and analytical workflows since 2012. Her PhD in Genetics underpins a strong quantitative background—she also has hands-on experience with genome-wide microarray analysis from a postdoc at the University of Minnesota. Krista blends wet-lab insight with computational rigor to make genomic data interpretable for operational decisions, and she’s known for guiding cross-disciplinary teams through complex validation and implementation challenges. An often-overlooked strength is her long-term continuity at a single organization, which has given her deep institutional knowledge and the ability to scale capabilities sustainably.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Genetics, PhD, Genetics at Texas A&M UniversityBS, Major in Animal Science and Minor in Chemistry, BS, Major in Animal Science and Minor in Chemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (13)
snakemake10
metagenomics10
open-source8
minhash7
benchmarking6
neighbors5
bioinformatics5
near4
genomics3
python3
containerization3
rust2
sketching1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
signaturescience/screening_course
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
signaturescience/metscale
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
MetScale: snakemake workflows to scale metagenome analyses
Contributions:258 commits, 4 PRs, 191 pushes in 2 years 9 months
snakemakemetagenomicstaxonomic-classificationssnakemake-workflows
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