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Dikow, Rebecca B.

Research Data Scientist

Positions

• Research Data Scientist, Office of Chief Information Officer 2016 -

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Background And Education

education and training

• Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago , Committee on Evolutionary Biology 2007 - 2012
• B.S. in Biological Sciences, Cornell University , College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 1999 - 2003
• National Museum of Natural History , Biodiversity Genomics Initiative 2012 - 2016

awards and honors

• Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018

Research And Grants

co-principal investigator on

• Deepening our understanding of digitized herbarium samples using machine learning  awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards

Publications

selected publications

• article

  • Confronting Sources of Systematic Error to Resolve Historically Contentious Relationships: A Case Study Using Gadiform Fishes (Teleostei, Paracanthopterygii, Gadiformes) 2021
  • Draft Genome Assemblies and Annotations of Agrypnia vestita Walker, and Hesperophylax magnus Banks Reveal Substantial Repetitive Element Expansion in Tube Case-Making Caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera) 2021
  • Whole-Genome Sequencing of Procyonids Reveals Distinct Demographic Histories in Kinkajou (Potos flavus) and Northern Raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2021
  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics 2020
  • First genome sequence of the Gunnison's prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni), a Keystone species and player in the transmission of sylvatic plague 2020
  • Generating segmentation masks of herbarium specimens and a data set for training segmentation models using deep learning 2020
  • Genomic architecture of endogenous ichnoviruses reveals distinct evolutionary pathways leading to virus domestication in parasitic wasps 2020
  • A fully resolved backbone phylogeny reveals numerous dispersals and explosive diversifications throughout the history of Asteraceae 2019
  • An empirical assessment of a single family-wide hybrid capture locus set at multiple evolutionary timescales in Asteraceae 2019
  • Box, stalked, and upside-down? Draft genomes from diverse jellyfish (Cnidaria, Acraspeda) lineages: Alatina alata (Cubozoa), Calvadosia cruxmelitensis (Staurozoa), and Cassiopea xamachana (Scyphozoa) 2019
  • Congruent phylogenetic relationships of Melaphidina aphids (Aphididae: Eriosomatinae: Fordini) according to nuclear and mitochondrial DNA data with taxonomic implications on generic limits 2019
  • Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation 2019
  • Population Genomics and Structure of the Critically Endangered Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi) 2019
  • Genome sequence and population declines in the critically endangered greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) and implications for conservation 2018
  • Another look at the phylogenetic relationships and intercontinental biogeography of eastern Asian – North American Rhus gall aphids (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Eriosomatinae): Evidence from mitogenome sequences via genome skimming 2017
  • Applications of deep convolutional neural networks to digitized natural history collections 2017
  • Developing integrative systematics in the informatics and genomic era, and calling for a global Biodiversity Cyberbank 2017
  • Genomic and transcriptomic resources for assassin flies including the complete genome sequence of Proctacanthus coquilletti (Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae) and 16 representative transcriptomes 2017
  • The Compositae Tree of Life in the age of phylogenomics 2017
  • Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant-fungus agricultural symbiosis 2016
  • Using phylogenomics to resolve mega-families: An example from Compositae 2015
  • A Target Enrichment Method for Gathering Phylogenetic Information from Hundreds of Loci: An Example from the Compositae 2014
  • Genomic resources for the endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers 2014
  • Complete genome sequences provide a case study for the evaluation of gene-tree thinking 2013
  • Genome-level homology and phylogeny of Vibrionaceae (Gammaproteobacteria: Vibrionales) with three new complete genome sequences 2013

• chapter

  • Utility of transcriptome sequencing for phylogenetic inference and character evolution 2015

• dataset

  • Mariana Crow (Corvus kubaryi) genome assembly and annotation 2021
  • American Women's History Initiative Symposium Project first names 2020
  • American Women's History Initiative Symposium Project word counts 2020
  • Augustus and Blast2GO GFF files from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Cynomys gunnisoni GFF files 2020
  • Cynomys gunnisoni VCF file 2020
  • Data from AWHI Symposium Funk List Project 2020
  • High resolution JPG images used for masking 2020
  • High resolution ground truth masks 2020
  • Kinkajou (Potos flavus) Platanus assembly masked using RepeatMasker from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Kinkajou (Potos flavus) de novo assembly using ALLPATHS-LG from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Kinkajou (Potos flavus) de novo assembly using MaSuRCA from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Metadata for high resolution masked herbarium images 2020
  • Nucmer alignments and coordinate files used to generate dotplots from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • PSMC plot 2020
  • Pseudochromosome Ragout assemblies and ago files from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Raccoon (Procyon lotor) Platanus assembly masked using RepeatMasker from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Raccoon (Procyon lotor) de novo assembly using ALLPATHS-LG from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020
  • Raccoon (Procyon lotor) de novo assembly using MaSuRCA from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor)Untitled Item 2020
  • VCF files from: Whole genome sequencing of procyonids reveals distinct demographic histories in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and northern raccoon (Procyon lotor) 2020

• report

  • Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation 2018

• software

  • Fern Segmentation pickle file 2020

Affiliation

member of

• Red Siskin Initiative

Other

Location

• Office of Chief Information Officer  Department