Derek Kelly

Postdoctoral Fellow
Genomics and Computational Biology

Education

2023	Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Genomics and Computational Biology
2013	B.S. with Honors / B.A. Magna cum Laude, University of Missouri, Columbia Biological Sciences/Anthropology Minors in Mathematics and Art

Research Experience

2023 – Present	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Advisor: Dr. Sarah Tishkoff
2014 – 2015	Rotation Student, University of Pennsylvania Dr. Junhyong Kim: Characterized ID SINEs across recently sequenced Mus musculus genomes Dr. Nancy Zhang: Developed statistical models for the analysis of single cell RNA-seq data Dr. Sarah Tishkoff: Annotated genetic variation in diverse African populations
2012 – 2014	Research Assistant, University of Missouri, Columbia Dr. Toni Kazic: Developed image processing tools to automatically detect and segment Zea mays lesions
2012	MU – HHMI Summer Bioinformatics Institute Predicted binding sites between Rhabdoviridae glycoprotein and neural receptor proteins
2011 – 2012	Research Assistant, University of Missouri, Columbia Dr. Scott Maddux: Catalogued a collection of human skeletal remains
2010	Undergraduate Research, University of Missouri, Columbia Dr. Robert Walker: Inferred the vertical cultural transmission of tattooing in Austronesia using Bayesian modelling

Awards and Scholarships

2013	Phi Beta Kappa
2009 – 2013	Dean’s List
2008 – 2013	Bright Flight Scholarship
2008 – 2013	Excellence Award
2012	Jesse Wrench Scholarship
2009 – 2010	Hal & Beulah McHaney Scholarship

Publications and Presentations

Kelly DE. (2014) Extraction of phenotypic complexity by image analysis. Poster presented at: 2014 Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference. 10-15 July. Boston, MA

Kelly DE, Vatsa AK, Mayham WG, Hearne LB, Kazic T. (2013) Quantitative assessment of complex visual phenotypes in maize lesion mutants. Poster presented at: 2013 Maize Meeting. Proceedings of the 55th Maize Genetics Conference. 14-17 March. St. Charles, IL

Hearne LB, Kelly DE, Vatsa AK, Mayham WG, Kazic T. (2013) Statistical linkage across high dimensional observational domains. Paper presented at: Information Technology Interfaces (ITI), Proceedings of the ITI 2013 35th International Conference on, 24-27 June (pp.239-244) Cavtat, Croatia.