London Steele

Howdy! My name is London and I’m a Ph.D. student in Dr. Cole W. Matson’s Evolutionary and Environmental Toxicology Lab.

I have strong computational skills thanks to my education and training in bioinformatics (B.S. Informatics, Baylor University 2019). I entered Dr. Matson’s lab wanting to gain “wet lab” (benchtop) experience so that I could better comprehend the biological data sets that I analyze daily as a bioinformatic scientist. I’ve been able to learn and master many molecular biology techniques, with great emphasis on DNA and RNA extractions.

I now am honing my bioinformatic skills by creating and implementing analysis pipelines for transcriptomic (RNA-seq) datasets! I’m challenging the way that we use transcriptomics as a tool for toxicogenomics and environmental toxicology. Some of the unique aspects of my work include sequencing non-standard tissues and studying the effects of complex environmental mixtures on wild avian populations. I hope to bring transcriptomic methodologies to a wider scope of environmental and ecological toxicology research.