Kenzie Treese
Computational Biology Scholar
Profile
McKenzie Treese holds a bachelor’s degree in evolutionary biology from Southeast Missouri State University, where an early project building phylogenies of Elacatinus marine fishes introduced her to the programming language R and sparked a lasting interest in bioinformatics. She continued developing R and Python coding skills while working in research-adjacent roles before joining a neurodevelopment lab at the Stowers Institute, where she managed a 50/50 wet-lab/dry-lab project and dove headfirst into single-cell multiomic (RNA + ATAC) analysis. Treese joined the Stowers Computational Biology Scholars program to deepen her computational expertise and bring back new ideas and inspiration to her work in the lab. She is particularly motivated by a love of clear scientific communication, hoping to effectively bridge the language gap between biologists and computational scientists.
