Kirsten Grond, Ph.D.

Bioinformatician/Biostatistician/Microbiome expert with a strong background in molecular biology and a passion for analysis of biological data and troubleshooting code.

Research Expertise

microbiomes

ecology

microbiology

bioinformatics

Animal Science and Zoology

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Ecological Modeling

Plant Science

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Virology

Infectious Diseases

Microbiology (medical)

Nature and Landscape Conservation

Food Science

Biotechnology

Agronomy and Crop Science

Horticulture

Environmental Engineering

Pollution

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Environmental Chemistry

Waste Management and Disposal

Computer Science Applications

Biochemistry

Genetics

Molecular Biology

Physiology

Modeling and Simulation

Polymers and Plastics

Physiology (medical)

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Toxicology

Molecular Medicine

Genetics (clinical)

About

Bioinformatician/Biostatistician/Microbiome expert with a strong background in molecular biology and a passion for analysis of biological data and troubleshooting code. Skilled in analysis of large & messy datasets, advanced statistical modeling, data visualization, and written and oral dissemination of results to a wide range of audiences.

Publications

The avian gut microbiota: community, physiology and function in wild birds

Journal of Avian Biology

2018

Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high throughput sequences artifacts?

Fungal Ecology

2015

Recruitment and establishment of the gut microbiome in arctic shorebirds

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

2017

Avian gut microbiomes taking flight

Trends in Microbiology

2022

Phenological mismatch in Arctic‐breeding shorebirds: Impact of snowmelt and unpredictable weather conditions on food availability and chick growth

Ecology and Evolution

2019

Intestinal Microbiota and Species Diversity of Campylobacter and Helicobacter spp. in Migrating Shorebirds in Delaware Bay

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

2014

Composition and Drivers of Gut Microbial Communities in Arctic-Breeding Shorebirds

Frontiers in Microbiology

2019

Do Uniparental Sanderlings Calidris alba Increase Egg Heat Input to Compensate for Low Nest Attentiveness?

PLoS ONE

2011

Gastro-intestinal microbiota of two migratory shorebird species during spring migration staging in Delaware Bay, USA

Journal of Ornithology

2014

No evidence for phylosymbiosis in western chipmunk species

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

2019

Spatial heterogeneity of the shorebird gastrointestinal microbiome

Royal Society Open Science

2020

Longitudinal microbiome profiling reveals impermanence of probiotic bacteria in domestic pigeons

PLOS ONE

2019

Prey type and foraging ecology of SanderlingsCalidris albain different climate zones: are tropical areas more favourable than temperate sites?

PeerJ

2015

Dissolved organic matter production from herder application and in-situ burning of crude oil at high latitudes: Bioavailable molecular composition patterns and microbial community diversity effects

Journal of Hazardous Materials

2022

Effects of leg flags on nest survival of four species of Arctic‐breeding shorebirds

Journal of Field Ornithology

2018

Functional and Compositional Changes in the Fecal Microbiome of a Shorebird during Migratory Stopover

mSystems

2023

Gut microbiome is affected by gut region but robust to host physiological changes in captive active-season ground squirrels

Animal Microbiome

2021

No evidence for associations between brood size, gut microbiome diversity and survival in great tit (Parus major) nestlings

Animal Microbiome

2023

No evidence for associations between brood size, gut microbiome diversity and survival in great tit (Parus major) nestlings

Unknown Venue

2022

Treatment with gut-specific nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug attenuates metabolic inflammation but not body mass in fattening ground squirrels

American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology

2023

Factors influencing mercury exposure in Arctic-breeding shorebirds

Ecotoxicology

2023

Microbial gene expression during hibernation in arctic ground squirrels: greater differences across gut sections than in response to pre-hibernation dietary protein content

Frontiers in Genetics

2023

Seasonal and environmental factors contribute to the variation in the gut microbiome: a large-scale study of a small bird

Unknown Venue

2023

Functional and compositional changes in the fecal microbiome of a shorebird during pre-migratory weight gain

Unknown Venue

2022

Eggshell microbiota of a brood parasite reflects environment, not species

Journal of Ornithology

2022

Characterizing chemical herder effects on dissolved burn residue content in Alaska seawater and microbial community response

International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings

2021

Education

BSc, Biology / June, 2007

Groningen

University of Groningen

Msc, Biology: Ecology & Evolution / December, 2009

Groningen

Kansas State University

Ph.D., Biology: Microbiology & Bioinformatics / May, 2017

Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Experience

Biostat Bridge

Biostatistician / July — Present

Antimicrobial drug-susceptibility & clinical trial data analysis in R.

Snapi Health

Lead Computational Biologist / July, 2022 — December, 2023

Bioinformatics pipeline design and development. Analysis of large sequencing data sets. Scientific project development.

University of Alaska Anchorage

Research Professional / May, 2023 — Present

NGS data analysis, statistics, publication of results, graduate student mentoring.

Advanced Instrumentation in Microbiome Studies Core, University of Alaska Anchorage

Staff Bioinformatician / January, 2022 — May, 2023

Provide university researchers with expertise and advice in experimental design and sample collection, data analysis and bioinformatics.

University of Alaska Anchorage

Postdoctoral Fellow / May, 2020 — May, 2023

Sample collection & processing, meta-omics analyses, statistical analyses, dissemination of results to audiences of varying skill levels.

University of Connecticut

Postdoctoral Research Associate / May, 2017 — May, 2020

Project design and execution, amplicon and meta-omics analyses, statistics, publication of results, lab management, graduate student mentoring

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