James Sexton

Passionate about data science, neuroscience, and healthcare related research

Bioinformatics Director - Eleusis

Eleusis is a life science company dedicated to transforming psychedelics into medicines. I had the unique opportunity to join at an early stage to help grow the IP portfolio and tackle some of the larger care delivery challenges associated with this unique class of drugs.

MSc in Translational Neuroscience

I am a neuroscientist by training with a love for neuroimaging and translational efforts to take the science from bench to bedside.

Skills

Computer science

R - Statistical Programming

5 years

  • Tidyverse
  • Shiny
  • ggplot2
  • Dataframe manipulation
  • Regression
  • Complex survey designs

Python

3 years

  • Pandas
  • PySpark
  • NumPy
  • SciPy
  • scikit-learn
  • Jupyter notebooks
  • matplotlib

Git repository management

3 years

  • GitHub
  • GitHub actions CI/CD (<1 year)

MATLAB

2 years

  • Signal Processing Toolbox
  • EEGLAB (EEG)
  • SPM (fMRI)

Research capabilities

Functional MRI analyses

2 years

  • FMRIB Software Library (FSL)
  • Analysis of Functional NeuroImages (AFNI)
  • Advanced Normalization Tools (ANTs)
  • Shell scripting
  • NiPype with Python

Statistics

6 years

  • Replicating survey designs to weight complex regressions on population-level data
  • Regression (GLM, LM)
  • ANOVA (e.g., 2-factor 2-level in fMRI)
  • A+ in Biostatistics and Calculus 1-2 in undergraduate coursework

EEG analyses

2 years

  • EEGLAB (MATLAB)
  • MNE (Python)
  • Frequency analyses

Heart Rate analyses

1 year

  • Variability analyses (time and frequency domains)
  • Signal processing from medical devices (SciPy)

Communication

Academic Publishing

3 years

  • Primary author for two publications in Journal of Psychopharmacology and Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • 39 citations since 2019 (year of first publication)
  • 4 international conferences since 2018

Team leadership

6 years

  • Have successfully run meetings with site of clinical trial (industry)
  • Served as scrum master for a small development team (industry)
  • Course leader for 2019 Masters degree (liaison to Department)
  • Led a team of 8 students to acquire funding for agriculture research in undergraduate

Microsoft Office Suite

15 years

  • Highly proficient in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

HTML, Markdown, Dashboards

5 year

  • HTML and markdown for sites like this
  • Shiny (R) and plotly + dash (Python) for dashboards

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