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Barrett foat is a bioinformatics team lead at monsanto. He excels at the "why", the "what", the "how", and the "who" Specialties: Leading combined computational and experimental biology projects.
Barrett foat is a bioinformatics team lead at monsanto. He excels at the "why", the "what", the "how", and the "who" Specialties: Leading combined computational and experimental biology projects.
Barrett foat is a bioinformatics team lead at monsanto. He excels at the "why", the "what", the "how", and the "who" Specialties: Leading combined computational and experimental biology projects.
Summary I am passionate about driving the cycle of data-driven insight and real-world application. Career Theme Taking biological big data to practical application via rapid synthesis of knowledge, methods, and computational technologies. I excel at the "why", the "what", the "how", and the "who". Specialties: Leading combined computational and experimental biology projects. Communicating computational concepts to experimentalists and biology concepts to computationalists. Evaluating bioinformatics talent. Evaluating computational technologies. Bioinformatics algorithm development. Integrative analysis of genomics data. High performance computing and parallelization methods for computational biology. Statistical modeling of gene expression data. Motif discovery. Systems biology. Data analysis. Statistics. Molecular biology methods. Synthetic biology. Data science. Education Columbia University in the City of New York Ph.D., Biological Sciences, 2001 - 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison B.S., Genetics, 1998 - 2001 Experience Bioinformatics Team Lead at Monsanto July 2013 - Present (1 year) Systems Improvement Lead, Computational Biology Platform at Monsanto September 2011 - June 2013 (1 year 10 months) Gene Regulation Lead, Gene Expression Technology at Monsanto September 2010 - August 2011 (1 year) Computational Biologist, Gene Expression Technology at Monsanto June 2009 - September 2010 (1 year 4 months) Genetics Fellow & Postdoctoral Research Associate at Washington University School of Medicine June 2007 - June 2009 (2 years 1 month) Page1 Department of Genetics, Center for Genome Sciences Discovering structurally defined cis-regulatory elements within mRNAs by integrative analysis of genomic sequence and functional genomics data. Advisor: Gary D. Stormo PhD Student & Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia University September 2001 - May 2007 (5 years 9 months) Department of Biological Sciences Quantitative modeling of gene expression regulation by RNA-binding proteins and transcription factors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Advisor: Harmen J. Bussemaker Honors and Awards Most Valuable Team Member Monsanto Genome Analytics August 2013 Technology Leadership Mentoring Program Monsanto 2012 Competitive program for leadership development, including career mentoring with senior managers. Post Doctoral Fellow in Informatics PhRMA Foundation, Washington, DC 2007 Genetics Fellow Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 2007 Newberry Graduate Fellow Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY 2006 Sajovic Graduate Fellow Columbia University, New York, NY 2005 Sajovic Graduate Fellow Columbia University, New York, NY 2002 Honorable Mention, Predoctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences Page2 Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2002 Honorable Mention, Graduate Research Fellowship National Science Foundation 2002 Outstanding Senior Award College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2001 Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellow University of Wisconsin, Madison 2000 Patents System and method for quantifying the sequence specificity of nucleotide binding factors eu Patent 8219323 Inventors: Barrett Foat, Harmen B., Ronald T. Publications Discovering structural cis-regulatory elements by modeling the behaviors of mRNAs Mol Syst Biol. April 28, 2009 Authors: Barrett Foat, Gary D Stormo TransfactomeDB: a resource for exploring the nucleotide sequence specificity and condition-specific regulatory activity of trans-acting factors Nucleic Acids Res. January 2008 Authors: Barrett Foat, Ronald G. Tepper, Harmen J. Bussemaker Predictive modeling of genome-wide mRNA expression: from modules to molecules Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct. June 2007 Authors: Barrett Foat, Harmen J. Bussemaker, Lucas D. Ward Statistical mechanical modeling of genome-wide transcription factor occupancy data by MatrixREDUCE Bioinformatics July 2006 Authors: Barrett Foat, Alexandre V. Morozov, Harmen J. Bussemaker Profiling condition-specific, genome-wide regulation of mRNA stability in yeast Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. December 6, 2005 Authors: Barrett Foat, S. Sean Houshmandi, Wendy M. Olivas, Harmen J. Bussemaker Page3 T-profiler: scoring the activity of predefined groups of genes using gene expression data Nucleic Acids Res. July 1, 2005 Authors: Barrett Foat, Andr Boorsma, Daniel Vis, Frans Klis, Harmen J. Bussemaker Defining transcriptional networks through integrative modeling of mRNA expression and transcription factor binding data BMC Bioinformatics March 18, 2004 Authors: Barrett Foat, Feng Gao, Harmen J Bussemaker Identification of genes expressed in C. elegans touch receptor neurons Nature July 18, 2002 Authors: Barrett Foat, Yun Zhang, Charles Ma, Thomas Delohery, Brian Nasipak, Alexander Bounoutas, Harmen J. Bussemaker, Stuart K. Kim, Martin Chalfie Sister chromatids fail to separate during an induced endoreplication cycle in Drosophila embryos Curr Bio. May 14, 2002 Authors: Barrett Foat, Smruti J Vidwans, Paul J DiGregorio, Antony W Shermoen, Janet Iwasa, Nikita Yakubovich, Patrick H O'Farrell Skills & Expertise Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genomics Molecular Biology Genetics Functional Genomics Systems Biology Statistics R Sequence Analysis Gene Regulation Data Analysis Perl Scientific Computing High Performance Computing Linux Matrix Management Transcriptomics Predictive Modeling C Synthetic Biology Parallel Computing Clojure Data Integration Computational Genomics Epigenetics Page4 Epigenomics Page5 Barrett Foat Bioinformatics Team Lead Contact Barrett on LinkedIn Page6