Professor
Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Phone: (801) 585‐9934

University web page (link)

Dr. Karen Eilbeck earned both her M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of Manchester in England. She did postdoctoral training in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. Prior to moving to Utah, she was a scientist at Celera Genomics in Maryland, and at the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project at U.C. Berkeley. 

Dr. Eilbeck is a professor and the vice-chair of Education in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. She teaches the BMI Foundations of Bioinformatics core course to first-year graduate students and is involved in undergraduate medical education. She completed a one-year certificate in Educational Scholarship with the University of Utah Academy of Health Science Educators. 

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Education

• 1992 – 1995 B.Sc., Biological & Biochemical Sciences, University of Salford, UK.
• 1995 – 1996 M.Sc., Bioinformatics, University of Manchester, UK.
• 1996 – 2000 Ph.D., Biochemistry, University of Manchester, UK.
• 1996 – 1999 Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK

Professional Experience

Current Academic Positions

• 2017 – Present: Professor of Biomedical Informatics
  Department of Biomedical Informatics
  Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
  University of Utah
  Salt Lake City, UT

• 2010 – Present: Adjunct Professor
  Department of Human Genetics
  Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
  University of Utah
  Salt Lake City, UT

Past Academic Positions

• 2019 – 2021: Interim Department Chair
  Department of Biomedical Informatics
  University of Utah
• 2012 – 2017: Associate Professor
  Department of Biomedical Informatics
  University of Utah
• 2010 – 2012: Assistant Professor
  Department of Biomedical Informatics
  University of Utah
• 2005 – 2010: Research Assistant Professor
  Department of Human Genetics
  University of Utah
• 2007 – 2010: Adjunct Assistant Professor
  Department of Biomedical Informatics
  University of Utah
• 2003 – 2005: Chief Architect and Programmer Analyst
  The Sequence Ontology
  The Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP)
  University of California
  Berkeley, CA

Past Industrial Position

• 2000 – 2003: Scientist
  Celera Genomics
  Rockville, MD

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Software

• ClinVar Miner https://clinvarminer.genetics.utah.edu/
• Sequence Ontology http://www.sequenceontology.org/
• miSO Sequence Ontology Browser http://www.sequenceontology.org/cgi-bin/miso.cgi
• SO-wiki http://www.sequenceontology.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Sequence Ontology Bioinformatics Analysis (SOBA) http://www.sequenceontology.org/cgi-bin/soba.cgi

Data Standards

• The Genome Variation Format (GVF): A variant file format standard for personal genome annotation
• GA4GH Sequence Annotation Study Group co-lead