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Anna Battenhouse |
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Eric Rostetter | Carlos Villarreal | Maorong Zou |
About Anna
Anna has taken a different route to UT biocomputing.
Her Timeline:
- 1978: BA English Literature, Carleton College, Northfield MN
- 1982 - 2006: Professional Software Engineer
- 2007 - Present: "Retirement career" - Biocomputing and Bioinformatics roles at UT Austin
- 2013: BS Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin
Her Roles:
- Associate Research Scientist, Edward Marcotte lab
- Manager, Biomedical Research Support Facility (BRCF) - https://cloud.wikis.utexas.edu/wiki/spaces/RCTFusers
- Member, Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG) - https://site.research.utexas.edu/cbrs/cores/cbb/bioinformatics-services/
- Workshop instructor, Center for Biomedical Research Support (CBRS) - https://site.research.utexas.edu/cbrs/classes/
With a degree in English literature, Anna started out working in publishing, but became quickly discouraged by publishing's 80/20 rule: women do 80% of the work and make 20% of the $$. So she started taking Math and C.S. classes at UT and managed to get a summer internship on the customer support line at Texas Instruments (TI). That was it – she had found her tribe!
After a long career in professional software development at TI, Motorola, and other companies, Anna began her “retirement career” at UT Austin in 2007 in the Functional Genomics lab of Vishwanath Iyer, co-inventor of Microarray technology. At that time Dr. Iyer was one of the first UT researchers to experiment with high-throughput Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS). Anna was fortunate to be part of the first wave in this then-new technology and has acquired extensive experience in NGS over the years.
Anna also helped found, and now manages, the Biomedical Research Support Facility (BRCF), where her role requires a unique combination of skills in systems administration, programming, project management, problem troubleshooting, and customer communication, as well as bioinformatics/biology knowledge.
Today Anna also assists Marcotte lab members with NGS analysis, performs fee-based bioinformatics analyses for UT researchers in UT’s Bioinformatics Consulting Group, and teaches a number of workshops on NGS and other topics for training offerings in the Center for Biomedical Research Support (CBRS).
In her (limited) free time, Anna loves to read widely (especially history), travel with her husband John Kolts, play contract bridge, and take walks with their beloved Shih Tzu, Lola.
About Marci
Senior Systems Administrator, Biomedical Research Support Facility (BRCF)
Marci has a BS in Physics and Computer Science from Trinity University, and went on to get a master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics from Johns Hopkins.
She started her sysadmin career in the Astronomy Department at UT, where she occasionally got to visit McDonald Observatory – which should be on everyone's list when they visit West Texas, as they have an excellent visitors' program – before moving to CSSB (Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, one of the precursors to the BRCF), and then to the School of Information. She returned to the BRCF in 2021.
In her spare time, Marci enjoys reading (especially mysteries, sci fi, and fantasy), board games, camping, and anything involving water. She also teaches childbirth classes and enjoys talking about the early postpartum period, even briefly hosting a podcast on the subject.