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Bioinformatics Specialist & Data Analyst | Expert in R, Python, Microbiome Analysis, and AI-powered ChatGPT workflows.

Profile Summary

Experienced Bioinformatics Specialist with expertise in R, Python, Bash, and Machine Learning. Skilled in microbiome data analysis and proficient in using AI-powered tools like ChatGPT to enhance workflows by generating ideas and speeding up research processes. I have successfully led and contributed to multiple research projects, including developing microbiome analysis pipelines and data analysis guides. My educational background in Computational Biology and Statistics, combined with ongoing work in data analysis and bioinformatics, equips me to deliver high-quality, insightful results for complex research challenges.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Machine Learning
• ★ Statistics
• ★ Python
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Big Data Analytics
• ☆ Data Management
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Text Mining & Analytics
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Clinical Trials
• ☆ Clinical Trials Data Analysis

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting

Research Market Research, User Research, Meta-Research, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Work Experience

Multi-Omics and Microbiome Bioinformatics and Data Scientist

Independent Freelancer

January 2020 - Present

Bioinformatician and Data Analyst

Freelancer

January 2020 - Present

Computational Biologist

Penn State University

April 2016 - October 2018

Computational Biologist

Mississippi State University

September 2011 - January 2016

Research Associate

Mississippi State University

September 2007 - September 2011

Graduate Research Assistant

Mississippi State University

August 2005 - September 2007

Education

PhD in Veterinary Medical Sciences - Computational Biology

Mississippi State University

August 2005 - December 2009

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

(2019). Microbial Diversity in Bushmeat Samples Recovered from the Serengeti Ecosystem in Tanzania . Scientific Reports.

(2019). iMAP: an integrated bioinformatics and visualization pipeline for microbiome data analysis . BMC Bioinformatics.

Buza, Teresia M and Jack, Sherman W and Kirunda, Halid and Khaitsa, Margaret L and Lawrence, Mark L and Pruett, Stephen and Peterson, Daniel G(2015). ERAIZDA: A model for holistic annotation of animal infectious and zoonotic diseases . Database.

Buza, Teresia and Arick, Mark and Wang, Hui and Peterson, Daniel G(2014). Computational prediction of disease microRNAs in domestic animals . BMC Research Notes.

Magbanua, Zenaida V and Arick, Mark and Buza, Teresia and Hsu, Chuan-Yu and Showmaker, Kurt C and Chouvarine, Philippe and Deng, Peng and Peterson, Daniel G and Lu, Shien(2014). Transcriptomic dissection of the rice-Burkholderia glumae interaction . BMC genomics.

Magbanua, Zenaida V and Arick, Mark and Buza, Teresia and Hsu, Chuan Yu and Showmaker, Kurt C and Chouvarine, Philippe and Deng, Peng and Peterson, Daniel G and Lu, Shien(2014). Transcriptomic dissection of the rice - Burkholderia glumae interaction . BMC Genomics.

(2011). AgBase: Supporting functional modeling in agricultural organisms . Nucleic Acids Research.

Buza, Teresia J and Kumar, Ranjit and Gresham, Cathy R and Burgess, Shane C and McCarthy, Fiona M(2009). Facilitating functional annotation of chicken microarray data . BMC Bioinformatics.

Buza, Teresia J and Mccarthy, Fiona M and Wang, Nan and Bridges, Susan M and Burgess, Shane C(2008). Gene Ontology annotation quality analysis in model eukaryotes . Nucleic Acids Research.

Buza, Teresia J and McCarthy, Fiona M and Burgess, Shane C(2007). Experimental-confirmation and functional-annotation of predicted proteins in the chicken genome . BMC Genomics.

Teresia J Buza, Fiona M McCarthy, Shane C Burgess, 2007, 'Experimental-confirmation and functional-annotation of predicted proteins in the chicken genome', <i>BMC Genomics</i>, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 425 .

Teresia J Buza, Ranjit Kumar, Cathy R Gresham, Shane C Burgess, Fiona M McCarthy, 2009, 'Facilitating functional annotation of chicken microarray data', <i>BMC Bioinformatics</i>, vol. 10, no. Suppl 11, p. S2 .

CONFERENCE POSTER

iMAP: An integrative pipeline for classifying 16S rRNA gene sequences into known bacterial taxa. 2nd American Society For Microbiology (ASM) Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines.