Maria Stephenson
Graduate Student
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMaria Stephenson is a bioinformatics-focused PhD student and computer scientist with a decade of research and software experience, currently developing multiomic biomarkers and characterizing metastatic urothelial cancer using cfDNA-Seq, plasma ChIP-Seq, and RNA-Seq at the Vancouver Prostate Centre. She has built tools for the genomics community—most notably RNA-Scoop for visualizing isoform expression in single-cell data—and presented that work at ISMB. Her background spans hands-on omics analyses in AML and multiple myeloma, courseware and grading software development for introductory CS, and rotations across BC Cancer labs, giving her a rare blend of computational engineering and translational cancer biology. Comfortable with both algorithmic coding and complex data interpretation, she excels at turning heterogeneous molecular data into biologically meaningful insights. Based in Greater Vancouver, she brings academic rigor, practical tool-building, and communication skills honed through teaching and conference presentations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (8)
data-visualisation10
shipit10
visualization9
functional-enrichment8
bioconductor2
java2
clustering-algorithm2
tsne2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BirolLab/RNA-Scoop
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
:shipit: interactive visualization of single-cell transcriptomes
Contributions:185 commits, 78 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 6 months
shipitvisualizationsingle-cell-rna-seqisoformsscrna-seq
msteph11/MarsBonds
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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