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Hire Dr. Aisha A.

United States

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NGS expert | 9 years of experience in bioinformatics, analysis pipelines and Python programming

Profile Summary

I have an undergraduate degree in diagnostics, a master's in bioinformatics, and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. My postdoctoral project is focusing on characterizing HIV integration sites using ATAC-Seq, RNA-Seq and CHIP-Seq. During my Ph.D, I used error-corrected sequencing to validate in vitro and in silico CRISPR/Cas9 off-target prediction assays in genetically modified rhesus macaque models. Prior to my Ph.D. I worked as a bioinformatician where I built a reference viral database to facilitate endogenous retrovirus detection in cell lines, tissue, and vaccines.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ★ Python
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ ATAC-Seq
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ Gene Editing/CRISPR
• ☆ Gene Therapy

Services

• Consulting
• Data & AI

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) - NIH

October 2020 - Present

Predoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Heart Lung & Blood (NHLBI)

August 2016 - August 2020

BIoinformatician

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

June 2013 - May 2015

Internship

The Protein Information Resource (PIR)

August 2012 - June 2013

Education

Doctorate

Georgetown University

August 2015 - August 2020

Masters of Science

Georgetown University

August 2011 - December 2012

Certifications

• Excellence in Research Award

  American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

  May 2020 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Nickolls, A.R., Lee, M.M., Espinoza, D.F., Szczot, M., Lam, R.M., Wang, Q., Beers, J., Zou, J., Nguyen, M.Q., Solinski, H.J., et al.(2020). Transcriptional Programming of Human Mechanosensory Neuron Subtypes from Pluripotent Stem Cells . Cell Reports. 30. (3). p. 932-946.e7.

Shin, T.-H., Baek, E.J., Corat, M.A.F., Chen, S., Metais, J.-Y., AlJanahi, A.A., Zhou, Y., Donahue, R.E., Yu, K.-R., Dunbar, C.E.(2019). CRISPR/Cas9 PIG-A gene editing in nonhuman primate model demonstrates no intrinsic clonal expansion of PNH HSPCs . Blood. 133. (23). p. 2542-2545.

Goodacre, N., Aljanahi, A., Nandakumar, S., Mikailov, M., Khan, A.S.(2018). A reference viral database (RVDB) to enhance bioinformatics analysis of high-throughput sequencing for novel virus detection . mSphere. 3. (2).

AlJanahi, A.A., Danielsen, M., Dunbar, C.E.(2018). An Introduction to the Analysis of Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data . Molecular Therapy - Methods and Clinical Development. 10. p. 189-196.

Kim, M.Y., Yu, K.-R., Kenderian, S.S., Ruella, M., Chen, S., Shin, T.-H., Aljanahi, A.A., Schreeder, D., Klichinsky, M., Shestova, O., et al.(2018). Genetic Inactivation of CD33 in Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Enable CAR T Cell Immunotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia . Cell. 173. (6). p. 1439-1453.e19.

Khan, A.S., Ng, S.H.S., Vandeputte, O., Aljanahi, A., Deyati, A., Cassart, J.-P., Charlebois, R.L., Taliaferro, L.P.(2017). A multicenter study to evaluate the performance of high-throughput sequencing for virus detection . mSphere. 2. (5).

Hong, S.G., Yada, R.C., Choi, K., Carpentier, A., Liang, T.J., Merling, R.K., Sweeney, C.L., Malech, H.L., Jung, M., Corat, M.A.F., et al.(2017). Rhesus iPSC Safe Harbor Gene-Editing Platform for Stable Expression of Transgenes in Differentiated Cells of All Germ Layers . Molecular Therapy. 25. (1). p. 44-53.

Natale, D.A., Arighi, C.N., Blake, J.A., Bult, C.J., Christie, K.R., Cowart, J., D'Eustachio, P., Diehl, A.D., Drabkin, H.J., Helfer, O., et al.(2014). Protein Ontology: A controlled structured network of protein entities . Nucleic Acids Research. 42. (D1).