University of Washington, Seattle WA

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering

Advanced Data Science Option - Completed Summer 2021
Advisor: Elizabeth Nance, Ph.D. 

Pacific Northwest National Labs - University of Washington

Data Science Training Program

Internship Completed - Summer 2021

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University of Washington, Seattle WA

M.S. Chemical Engineering

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Arizona State University, Tempe AZ

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude

Honors Thesis: "New Diagnostic Methods for Detecting Microvillus Inclusion Disease" PI: Michael Caplan Ph.D.

Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award ($1400)

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Academic Data Science Alliance Student Keynote Nomination, University of Washington Science Institute Nominee

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Advanced Graudate Data Science Option Completed

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Auburn University's Preparing Future FAculty Workshop Series Participant

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AIChE 2021 Carbon Nanomaterails Graduate Student Awards Session Presenter

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Exceptional University of Washington Womxn Award

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University of Washington Compupter Science & Engineering 544: Database Management Systems Best Project Award - 1st Prize

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Engineering Fireside Chat with the Dean and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering, Graduate Student Interviewer (selected via a faculty nomination process)

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Husky Union Building: Hall of Fame Activities Award - Finalist

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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - University of Washington Data Science Training Program

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McCarthy Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching

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Student Technology Fee Awarded Proposal: Dynamic Light Scattering Autosampler ($23,660)

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Chemical Hygiene Officer Lab Safety Award

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Catherine and Scott C. Roberts Distinguished Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Engineering

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Diploma from Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University

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Dean's List at Arizona State University (Eight Consecutive Semesters)

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New American University Scholar - President's Award

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All-Conference Female State Bowling Champion (High School)

Helmbrecht H., Nance E.* Effective Laboratory2Education with TEXTILE: Tutorials in EXperimentalisT Interactive Leawrning. Journal of Chemical Engineering Education.

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Wood T. R., Hildahl K., Helmbrecht H. Corry K. A., Moralego D., Kolnik S. E., Prater K. E., Juul S. E., Nance E.* A ferret Ex Vivo Brain Slice Model of Oxygen-Glucose Deprivation Captures ERgional Perinatal Injury and Treatment Associated with Specific Microglial PHenotypes. BIoengineering & Translational Medicine (2021). In press. 

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Helmbrecht H., Xu N., Liao R., Nance E.* Data Management Schema Design for Effective Nanoparticle Formulation for Neurotherapeutics. AIChE Journal (2021) October; 17459 [Cover Article]

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Helmbrecht H., Joseph A., Zhang M., McKenna M., Nance E.* Governing transport principles for nanomedicine applications in the brain. Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering (2020) 30:112-119

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Joseph A., Liao R., Zhang M., Helmbrecht H., McKenna M., Filteau J., Nance E.* Nanoparticle-microglial interaction in the ischemic brain is modulated by injury duration and treatment. (Invited – Bioengineering and Translational Medicine), Bioengineering & Translational Medicine (2020) August; 10175

• Data Published: Jospeh A., Liao R., Zhang M., Helmbrecht H., Mckenna M., Filteau J., Nance E.* Fluorescent Microglia Images for Analyzing morphological Changes due to Injury Duration in the Sichemic Rat Brain [Data Set]. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4302580

Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Quantifying the Shapes of the Brain's Most Acrobatic Cell. Oral Presentation. University of Washington Scholars' Studio; Virtual; November 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Xu N., Nance E., Building a Queryable Nanotherapeutic Database to Advance Nanomedicine Translation to the Clinic. AIChE Annual Conference: AIChE Journal Futures - New Directions in Chemical Engineering Research SEssion; Boston, Massachusetts; November 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. TEXTILE: Tutorial sin EXperimentalisT Interactive LEarning. Oral Presentation. AIChE Annual Conference; Teaching dAta Science to STudents and Teachers I SEssion; Boston, Massachusetts; November 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Joseph A., Liao R., Xu N., Chen C., Nance E. Data Management Schema Design for Effective Nanoparticle Formulation for Probing and Treating Neurological Disease. Oral Presentation. AIChE Annual Conference: Computational Approaches for Studies at the Nanoscale Session; Boston, Massachusetts; November 2021. (Talk selected for Cabon Nanomaterials Graduate Student Award Session) 

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Enhancing Insight to Individual and Population-Based Microglial Reactivity with Image Analysis. Oral Presnetation. AIChE Annual Conference: Applications of Data Science to HIgh Throughput Experimentation; Boston, Massachusetts; November 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Jospeh A., Liao R., Xu N., Chen C., Nance E. Data Management Schema Design for Effective Nanoparticle Formulation for Probing and treating Neurological Disease. Oral Presentation. AIChE Annual Conference; Boston, Massachusetts; November 2021. Carbon Nanomaterials: Graduate Student Award Session

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Helmbrecht H., Joseph A., Liao R., Xu N., Chen C., Nance E., Data Management Schema Design for Effective Nanoparticle Formulation for Probing and Treating Neurological Disease. Oral Presentation. Chemical Engineering Graduate STudent Sypmosium; Seattle, Washington; SEeptember 2021.

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Helmbrecht H. Burkle L. M., Gasstelum J. A., Pazdernik K. Informal Document Segmentaiton for Improved Text Delineation. Oral Presentation. Pacific Northwest National Laboratories Gold Experience Symposium; Virtual; August 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Data Management Schema Design for Effective Nanoparticle Formulation for Probing and Treating Neurological Disease. Oral PResentation. University of Washington,  Bioengineering Department Biomaterials Seminar; Virtual; April 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Data Management Schema Design for Effective Nanoparticle Formulation for Probing and Treating Neurological Disease. Oral Presentation. University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science 544: Database Management Systems Showcase; Virtual; March 2021. Best Project Award - 1st prize.

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Ffiber: Framework For neuroImaging Based Experimental Routines. Oral Presentation. AIChE Annual Conference; Virtual; November 2020

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Application of a Robust Framework for neuroImaging Based Experimental Routines (FIBER) for Integrating Domain and Data Science; Oral Presentation. University of Washington, eScience Institute Data Science Seminar; Virtual; October 2020

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Application of a Robust Framework for neuroImaging Based Experimental Routines (FIBER) for Integrating Domain and Data Science. Oral Presentation. Academic Data Science Alliance Annual Meeting; Virtual; October 2020

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Jupyter Notebook as a Medium for Experimentalist and Data Scientist Collaboration in Neuroimaging. Oral Presentation. JupyterCon; Virtual; October 2020

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Helmbrecht H. Nance E. FIBER: Frameworks for neuroImaging Based Experimental Routines with Python and Jupyter Notebook. Lightning Talk. SciPy Annual Conference; Virtual; July 2020

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Enhancing Biological Insight and Connection with Data Science. Women in Chemical Engineering Poster Session. AIChE Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. November 2021. Women in Chemical Engineering Travel Award Winner.​

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Janakiraman S., Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Analysis of Microglial Morphology in Ischemic Brain INjury. University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium. Online. May 2021.

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Decker K., Helmbrecht H., Nance E. Algorithmic Study of Astrocyte Morphology with Increasing Distance from Injury. University of Washington Undergraduate Research Symposium. Online. May 2021.

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Helmbrecht H., Nance E. (2021) Enhancing Therapeutic Screening with Cell Feature Quantification and DAtabase Development. Uniersity of Washington Chemical Engineering Annual Graduate Student Poster Session. Virtual.

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Helmbrecht H., Elizabeth Nance (2020). Comprehensive Brain Cell Morphology Pipeline for Feature Quantification in Fluorescent Images. University of Washington Chemical Engineering Annual Graduate Student Poster Session.

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Helmbrecht H., Lin R., McKenna M., Shackelford D., Nance E. (2020). Data science for developing analysis and prediction tools for neural images and videos. University of Washington Chemical Engineering Annual Graduate Student Poster Session.

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Curtis C., Helmbrecht H., McKenna M., Shackelford D., Zhang M., Nance E. (2019) Implementing data science approaches at the interface of multi-particle tracking and histology datasets. University of Washington Chemical Engineering Annual Graduate Student Poster Session.

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Boese J., Helmbrecht H., Scheiwiller S., Shackelford D. (2019). Protein Characterization and Classification in Pre-Clinical Neural Images. University of Washington Data Intensive Research Enabling Clean Technologies Symposium.

Disease Directed Engineering Lab, Code Reviews, Lead Organizer and Instructor
 

• Organized and led a biweekly code review with 8 undergraduate students and 2 graduate students

• Taught reviews based on packages and functions from the larger SciPy environment, common laboratory code, and undergraduate projects

• Promoted and encouraged undergraduates to organize and run code reviews for the group on their own progress or regularly used code

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Disease Directed Engineering Lab, Tutorials in EXperimentalisT LEarning (TEXTILE), Lead Instructor and Curriculum Developer

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• Developed a curriculum including nine modules to teach data science, specifically processing and quantification of brain cell images, to students aged high school through graduate school

• Led 15 students through the curriculum in weekly hour-long sessions

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University of Washington, Dept. Chemical Engineering, Teaching Assistant for Distinguished Young Seminar Series

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• Developed application selection criteria by designing effective and equitable rubrics

• Organized graduate student-led review panels for choosing finalists

• Facilitated virtual speaker visits by scheduling faculty meetings, student group discussions, and moderating Zoom meeting transitions

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University of Washington, Dept. Chemical Engineering, Teaching Assistant for Mass and Materials Balances

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University of Washington, Dept. Chemical Engineering, Teaching Assistant for Chemical Engineering Senior Capstone Design

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Arizona State University, School of Energy, Matter, and Transport Engineering, Teaching Assistant for ASU 101: Introduction to Chemical Engineering 

Department of Chemical Engineering University of Washington

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Council to the Chair, Graduate Student Representative

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Industry Event, Volunteer Coordinator, Logistics and Panelist Coordinator

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Women in Chemical Engineering, Vice President

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Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), Senator, Judicial Committee Member

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Association of Chemical Engineering Graduate Students, President

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College of Engineering, University of Washington

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College of Engineering Student Advisory Council, Graduate Student Representative

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College of Engineering Innovative Engineering Education Sub-Committee at University of Washington, Student Representative

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Strategic Planning Steering Committee for the College of Engineering, GPSS & Chemical Engineering Representative

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Advisory Search Committee on the Deanship of the College of Engineering at University of Washington, GPSS Representative

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Professional

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Young Professional Committee, Retention and Recruitment Subcommittee, K-12 Outreach Coordinator

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

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Biomedical Engineering Society

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Society of Women Engineers