RNA-Seq Analysis

Jie (Jessie) Li, Bioinformatics Analyst

Jessie was trained as a theoretical chemist, before moving to UC Davis working in the field of computational biology as a postdoc. In 2012, Jessie started working at the Bioinformatics Core as a data analyst. Jessie is fascinated by biology, enjoys good thriller stories, and likes to take on challenges.

Blythe Durbin-Johnson, Principal Statistician

Blythe received her doctorate in Statistics from UC Davis in 2003, with a dissertation focused on data transformations for gene-expression microarray data. Following a post doc at UC Berkeley, she spent four years at Genentech before returning to Davis in 2009. When not working with the Bioinformatics Core, she analyzes all manner of clinical and molecular data for clients at the UC Davis Medical Center.'

Hannah Lyman, Bioinformatics Analyst

Hannah joined the Bioinformatics Core in 2020 after finishing her PhD in Integrative Genetics and Genomics at UC Davis in 2019. She enjoys digging around in genomic data, learning new ways to do things in R, and knitting impractical scarves.