Marci Brandenburg

About

Marci Brandenburg is the Bioinformationist for the Taubman Health Sciences Library. She works closely with the Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCM&B), the Bioinformatics Core, and the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI), in addition to supporting other bioinformatics research on campus. Prior to working at the University of Michigan, she was the Biosciences Informationist at the National Cancer Institute-Frederick in Frederick, MD.

Background

MSI, University of Michigan, 2008

MS, Ohio University, 2004

BA, Bowdoin College, 2001

Responsibilities

*Resource training and tutorials

*1-on-1 consultations

*Documentation

*Literature searches

*Licensing

Specific examples:

*Classroom teaching of Cytoscape, open-source visualization software

*Updating of MetScape (a Cytoscape plugin developed by NCIBI) user manual

*Updating terms of use for NCIBI tools’ source databases