RNA-Seq Analysis

Matt Settles, Bioinformatics Core Manager

Jie (Jessie) Li

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

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 postdoc 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.

Keith Mitchell

Keith is a graduate student with the Core, recently graduating from UCLA with a B.S. in microbio, immuno, and molecular genetics, along with a minor in bioinformatics. He enjoys teaching, data analysis with python, building content management systems, and all things bioinformatics. In his small amount of free time as a grad student, you might catch him playing basketball at the gym, or skiing in Tahoe.

Hannah Lyman

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