Joe Varberg

I am an interdisciplinary biologist & data scientist, with a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and over a decade of experience in the areas of molecular and cell biology, genetics, microscopy and image analysis. I currently live in the Kansas City metro area where I am a Scientist working in the Systems Mass Spectrometry group at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. I use and develop open science tools to analyze and integrate multi-omics datasets including single-cell RNA-sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, quantitative proteomics and imaging mass spectrometry. I’m passionate about open science, data visualization, scientific communication and building the scientific research community in the Kansas City region.

Currently:

Listening to - Hans Philip - Hjertebrand

Reading - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind

Drinking - Revocup - Ethiopian Sidamo Natural

Structured illumination microscopy image of human retinal epithelial cells (RPE1) visualizing actin (grey/white), DNA (cyan), nucleoli (magenta), and nuclear pore complexes (yellow).

Animation of spatial transcriptomics data, with single cells mapped in UMAP space and x/y space from the tissue slice.

I am an interdisciplinary biologist & data scientist, with a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and over a decade of experience in the areas of molecular and cell biology, genetics, microscopy and image analysis. I currently live in the Kansas City metro area where I am a Scientist working in the Systems Mass Spectrometry group at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. I use and develop open science tools to analyze and integrate multi-omics datasets including single-cell RNA-sequencing, spatial transcriptomics, quantitative proteomics and imaging mass spectrometry. I’m passionate about open science, data visualization, scientific communication and building the scientific research community in the Kansas City region.

Currently:

Listening to - Hans Philip - Hjertebrand

Reading - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind

Drinking - Revocup - Ethiopian Sidamo Natural

Structured illumination microscopy image of human retinal epithelial cells (RPE1) visualizing actin (grey/white), DNA (cyan), nucleoli (magenta), and nuclear pore complexes (yellow).

Animation of spatial transcriptomics data, with single cells mapped in UMAP space and x/y space from the tissue slice.