Valerie Gartner
Commercialization Fellow
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValerie Gartner is a computational biologist and translational researcher whose work spans functional genomics, auto-inflammatory diseases, rare pediatric neurological disorders, and pathogen evolution. She is currently a Commercialization Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, uniquely combining genomic analytics with project design and cross-functional communication to move discoveries toward clinical impact. In her postdoctoral work, she led three simultaneous projects on disease phenotypes, contributed to four additional projects, and helped produce three manuscripts in preparation alongside a peer‑reviewed publication; she also identified chromatin accessibility as a potential epigenetic biomarker for a severe Crohn’s disease subtype. Valerie earned her PhD in Genetics & Genomics from Duke University and has trained at NIH and Duke, with a track record of interdisciplinary collaboration with wet-lab scientists, clinicians, technicians, and donors. Based in Durham, NC, she brings analytical rigor, leadership, and a translational mindset to teams advancing biomedical research.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics & Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics & Genomics at Duke UniversityBachelor's degree, Biology, Bachelor's degree, Biology at Bryn Mawr CollegeMinnesota State University, Moorhead
French
Github Skills (38)
ncbi9
genomics8
minhash8
phasing8
variants7
bioinformatics7
jupyter-book5
shell5
data-wrangling5
bug-reporting5
stable5
binder4
args4
placement4
bayesian4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vlrieg/scripts
Apr 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
valgartner/DRC_vivax
Oct 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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