Description: Karen Cranston, PhD. Computational evolutionary biologist at Duke. Building the Open Tree of Life. Teaching computational skills.
Main Navigation About Research Teaching Talks Contracting Blog CV I am a post-academic computational evolutionary biologist working in software development that supports data sharing and research. My current role is Team Lead of the CanDIG platform, a project of the University Health Network Data Aggregation, Translation, and Architecture ( DATA ) team.
During my academic career , I worked on phylogenetic inference (building evolutionary trees from DNA sequences) and phyloinformatics (synthesis and management of phylogenetic data). I was lead PI of the Open Tree of Life project, which builds and keeps up to date a comprehensive tree of all life.
I am a passionate supporter of Open Science and Reproducible Science - making research data, scientific software, and publications freely available for review, use, and re-use.