Christy has a wide-ranging background in biology and over ten years of experience in bioinformatics data analysis, including differential gene and isoform expression analyses, variant calling, copy number detection, ChIP-seq, and downstream gene network and pathway analyses. In 2013, she joined the Research Informatics Solutions group at the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) as the first analyst in a new collaboration between MSI and the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (LM&P) to provide cutting-edge bioinformatics support for LM&P research and clinical projects. She led this group from 2015 until 2020, as it grew from two to five analysts. In 2020, Christy became the Assistant Director for Research Informatics Solutions, leading MSI's bioinfomatics group, and in late 2022 she became the co-Director for Research Informatics, leading a team of 16 bioinformatics analysts.
- RNA-seq and downstream analyses (gene, isoform and exon-level analyses, pathway and network analyses)
- Variant detection (SNPs, indels, CNVs in germline, oncology and cell-free DNA samples)
- Development of bioinformatic pipelines for clinical genetic testing and genetic variant calling
- ChIP-seq analysis
- Marine invertebrate zoology and evolutionary genetics
- Postdoc, bioinformatics analysis of mouse miRNA expression during reprogramming, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Postdoc, marine ecology and genetics, University of California, Santa Barbara
- PhD, Biology, Duke University
- BS, Biology, Cornell University