Hi! I'm Boris! I've just defended a dissertation at Johns Hopkins about a new way of using random forest regressors to do single-cell biology. It's probably my best-written project right now, and you can check it out here:

https://github.com/bbrener1/rusty_axe

In the past I've done other kinds of biology work, like working on highly sensitive qPCR, good enough to detect not just a difference of a single base but good enough to detect non-standard DNA bases (lesions) in synthetic constructs. (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12963-7, lol @ that url but it's really just Scientific Reports)

My main interest has been and will be the biology of aging, and I studied both molecular biology and bioinformatics to enable me to stage really cool experiments about the mechanisms of aging. Want to talk about detecting heteroplasmy at single-cell level to study the short-term evolutionary patterns of mt genomes? Want to rant about "damn it, why is stem cell depletion so all over the place? differentiation isn't that fancy a process, so how is the aging association backwards in every other tissue? It makes no sense!" at 3 am? Yeah, same, same.

• Johns Hopkins University: PhD, Biology (2015-2021)
• University of California, Santa Cruz: BS, Bioengineering (2009-2013)

• Johns Hopkins Medical School: Postdoc, Stein-O'Brien Lab (24-present)
• Emerald Cloud Lab: Scientific Developer (2022-2023)
• Johns Hopkins University: Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant (2015-2021)
• National Institute on Aging: Postbaccalaureate Fellow (2013-2015)
• University of California, Santa Cruz: Research Assistant (2010-2013)

Fluent:

• Python
• Rust
• Russian

Can order lunch:

• Bash

• qPCR
• Tissue culture
• Primary line transfection
• Protein cloning