Adelaide Rhodes, Ph.D.

Senior Bioinformatics Lead Scientist

Research Expertise

Comparative Genomics

Biodiversity

Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics

Computational Biology

Deep Sea Benthic Ecology

About

I am an experienced, highly motivated technology professional with experience in a variety of research environment technologies and infrastructure on-prem and in the cloud. I have held many roles in leading the delivery of programs and projects in advancing the Informatics & Technology (I&T) capabilities for genomics focused organizations. As a researcher, I have more than 20 years of experience in analyzing "big data” at the molecular, organismal, and ecological scales for environmental, metagenomic and human health data. I use advanced analytical tools and custom scripts in R, Python, MATLAB, UNIX, and SAS to interrogate data sets for meaningful insights. I enjoy speeding up data analysis and discovery implementing test driven development of bioinformatics workflows on HPC and commercial cloud computing resources (AWS and GCP and custom cloud platforms).

Publications

Deep-Sea Benthic Footprint of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout

PLoS ONE

2013

An analysis of segmentation dynamics throughout embryogenesis in the centipede Strigamia maritima

BMC Biology

2013

C.-S. Lee, P. J. O'Bryen & N. H. Marcus (eds.), 2005. Copepods in aquaculture

Crustaceana

2008

The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes

Journal of Heredity

2013

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) (Halyomorpha halys Stahl): A Confirmed New Pest of Soybean

Grow: Plant Health Exchange

2011

Choosing an Appropriate Live Feed for Larviculture of Marine Fish

EDIS

2010

Differences in Mate Pairings of Hatchery- and Natural-Origin Coho Salmon Inferred from Offspring Genotypes

Integrative Organismal Biology

2021

First record of a tantulocaridan, Microdajus sp. (Crustacea: Tantulocarida), from the northwestern Atlantic

Nauplius

2021

The embryonic development of the centipede Strigamia maritima

Developmental Biology

2012

Author Index

Integrative and Comparative Biology

2014

New deep-sea Paratanaoidea (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Zootaxa

2016

Epigenetics in Comparative Biology: Why We Should Pay Attention

Integrative and Comparative Biology

2014

Mitigating Impacts of Natural Hazards on Fishery Ecosystems

2008

Omnivory in the calanoid copepod Temora longicornis: feeding, egg production and egg hatching rates

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

2003

Draft genome of Bugula neritina, a colonial animal packing powerful symbionts and potential medicines

Scientific Data

2020

Brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), genome: putative underpinnings of polyphagy, insecticide resistance potential and biology of a top worldwide pest

BMC Genomics

2020

Pan-tissue transcriptome analysis of long noncoding RNAs in the American beaver Castor canadensis

BMC Genomics

2020

Transcriptome analysis of the model grass Lolium temulentum exposed to green leaf volatiles

BMC Plant Biology

2019

Cross‐species analysis of the canine and human bladder cancer transcriptome and exome

Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer

2017

Benthic taxa as potential indicators of a deep-sea oil spill

Ecological Indicators

2016

Data Infrastructures for Estuarine and Coastal Ecological Syntheses

Estuaries and Coasts

2015

The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of the Geophilomorph Centipede Strigamia maritima

PLOS ONE

2015

Distribution of two species of the genus Nototanais spp. (Tanaidacea) in Winter Quarters Bay and waters adjoining McMurdo Station, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Polar Biology

2015

The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima

PLoS Biology

2014

Dietary effects on carotenoid composition in the marine harpacticoid copepod Nitokra lacustris

Journal of Plankton Research

2006

Formulated Feeds for Harpacticoid Copepods: Implications for Population Growth and Fatty Acid Composition

Copepods in Aquaculture

2005

Education

Johns Hopkins University

Biotechnology & Bioinformatics / May, 2012

Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

North Carolina State University

Ph.D., Zoology / May, 2004

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Florida Institute of Technology

M.S., Oceanography / December, 1992

Melbourne, Florida, United States of America

University of Virginia

B.A., Physics / August, 1990

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Experience

Tufts University

Senior Bioinformatics Lead Scientist / June, 2022 — Present

National Center for Biotechnology Information

Cloud Liaison Engineer / November, 2020 — April, 2022

Broad Institute

Senior Computational Research Associate / November, 2018 — April, 2020

Oregon State University

Faculty Research Associate / July, 2014 — September, 2017

Links & Social Media

Research Web Site

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