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General Information

Full Name Katherine Caley
Languages English (native speaker), Python (fluent), Spanish (beginner)

Education

  • 2021
    Bachelor of Science (Honours)
    The Australian National University
    • Thesis title: Quantifying the disequilibrium of DNA sequence evolution
    • Supervisor: Prof. Gavin Huttley
  • 2017-2020
    Bachelor of Science
    The Australian National University
    • Major: Computer Science and Cell and Molecular Biology

Experience

  • 2023-2025
    Scientific Programmer
    Research School of Biology, The Australian National University
    • Maintainer of cogent3, the COmparative GENomics Toolkit.
    • Developer of Diverse-Seq, a tool for the selection and clustering of biological sequences.
    • Contributor to gbintk, a toolkit for the analysis of metagenomic data.
  • 2022
    Research Assistant
    Biological Data Science Institute, Australian National University
    • Develop scripts for the colour normalisation of histology images.
    • Prototype survival analysis pipelines for cancer data.
  • 2020/2021
    Summer Research Intership
    Research School of Biology, The Australian National University

Honors and Awards

  • 2022
    • Chancellor's Letter of Commendation for 2021: Outstanding Academic Performance (Annual GPA of 7.0)
    • Best Student Talk at Phylomania, an International Conference of Theoretical Phylogenetics
  • 2021
    • Director's Prize in Honours: for achieving the highest mark in Biology Honours

Presentations

  • 2024
    Are genome k-mer compositions stable through time?
    SDU-ANU Joint Computational Biology Mini-Symposium
  • 2023
    Cogent3: Making Sense Out of Sequence
    Shandong University, QingDao
  • 2022
    Is the Human genome in mutation equilibrium?
    Phylomania, International Conference of Theoretical Phylogenetics
  • 2021
    Is the Human genome in mutation equilibrium?
    The Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society Conference

Teaching Experience

  • 2023
    Theoretical and Applied Genetics
    Joint College of Science, The Australian National University and Shandong University
  • 2023
    Bioinformatics and its Applications
    Research School of Biology, Australian National University
  • 2022
    Bioinformatics and its Applications
    Research School of Biology, Australian National University