Barbara Novak

Education: PhD Biological and Medical Informatics

Location: San Carlos, California, USA

Contact: barbara.novak@bmsis.org

Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-novak-5310911/

Dr. Barbara Novak is an experienced bioinformatician with over 15 years of industry experience providing bioinformatics support for genomic assay product development. She received her Bachelor's degree in Biology from the California Institute of Technology, but quickly decided that she'd rather solve computational challenges. Barbara went on to earn her Ph.D. in Biological and Medical Informatics at the University of California, San Francisco, analyzing gene expression and genomic profiling data in the context of pathway structures. Upon finishing her degree, she joined the Genomics group at Agilent Technologies where she led the bioinformatics effort in developing the SureSelect Target Enrichment platform. Most recently, Barbara directed bioinformatics and software strategy as the Head of Software and Bioinformatics at Factorial Biotechnologies, a single-cell startup developing a novel in-cell library prep solution.

Advisor(s): Drs. Sylvain Costes (NASA Ames) and Lauren Sanders (BMSIS)