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ZACH PEARSON

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My name is Zach Pearson. I'm a software engineer living in San Francisco, originally from Kansas City, Kansas. I went to the University of Kansas and came out with degrees in Chemistry and Computer Science. During my undergrad, I did research with the Departments of Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry. Since graduating, I've worked at the Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics at the University of California, San Francisco, in a full stack desktop role. On the frontend, I write tools for scientists to analyze experimental data and clients for various webservices on our backend, which I also wrote. My most recent work has been on improving our visualizations of medical images and implementing real-time interactive segmentations.


In my free time I ride motorcycles, take photos, play the guitar, and play Counter-Strike.


Employment

2021 — 20?? | UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization, and Informatics
2018 — 2021 | Boskovic Lab at the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy

Education

2021 | Bachelor of Science, Computer Science | The University of Kansas School of Engineering
2019 | Bachelor of Science, Chemistry | The University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

Publications

2023 | Protein Science | UCSF ChimeraX: Tools for Structure Building and Analysis | Meng, E.; Goddard, T.; Pettersen, E.; Couch, G.; Pearson, Z.; Morris, J.; Ferrin, T.

2021 | Molecules | RNA-Targeting Splicing Modifiers: Drug Development and Screening Assays. | Tang, Z.; Zhao, J.; Pearson, Z. J.; Boskovic, Z. V.; Wang, J.

2020 | Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry | Broad Assessment of Bioactivity of a Collection of Spiroindane Pyrrolidines through “Cell Painting.” | Singh, M.; Garza, N.; Pearson, Z.; Douglas, J.; Boskovic, Z.

2020 | Medicinal Chemistry Research | Compound Collections at KU 1947–2017: Cheminformatic Analysis and Computational Protein Target Prediction. | Pearson, Z.; Singh, M.; Boskovic, Z.


Talks

2024 | Medical Image Formats @ EMedHacks
2024 | Visualizing and Segmenting 3D Medical Imaging Scans @ NIH

Photography

2018 | Overwatch | Kiosk 58 'Working Title'

2013 | Woman Walking in Country Club Plaza, KC | New York Times Lens Blog, My Hometown (Editor's Pick)

2013 | Man Meditating by Brush Creek | New York Times Lens Blog, My Hometown (Kansas City, Kansas)


Compositions

2016 | Partly Cloudy