PERSONAL DATA Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 Phone: 801‐585‐9934 University web page: http://medicine.utah.edu/faculty/mddetail.php?facultyID=u0514925
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.
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 Present Position 2017 – Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah & School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT Past Academic Positions 2019-2021 Interim Chair Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah 2012 – 2017 Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah & School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT 2010-present Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Human Genetics Eccles Institute of Human Genetics University of Utah & School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT 2010-2012 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah & School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT 2005 – 2010 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics Eccles Institute of Human Genetics University of Utah & School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT 2007 – 2010 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics University of Utah & School of Medicine Salt Lake City, UT 2003 – 2005 Chief Architect of the Sequence Ontology & Programmer Analyst, University of California, Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project (BDGP), Berkeley, CA Past Industrial Position 2000 – 2003 Scientist, Celera Genomics, Rockville, MD
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
- GVF: A standard format for the variant file for personal genome annotation: GVF
- GA4GH Genome Annotation Working Group co lead