Biography

Alexis Garretson is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and Predoctoral Student at Tufts University and The Jackson Laboratory joint program in Mammalian Genetics. Her research focuses on improving the accessibility and integration of historical data sources and ensuring sustainable stewardship of scientific data at small research institutions. She has served as the Data Stewardship Community Fellow for the Earth Science Information Partners for the last two years. She advocates for open data as an Open Biodiversity Data Ambassador with the Global Biodiversity Information Facilities and a Champion with the National Microbiome Data Collaborative. She has also been involved in bioinformatics and data science education as an instructor with The Carpentries and through developing university data science curriculum.

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