Emily McGrew joined PATCH Lab in 2022 as a Research Specialist. She graduated from Earlham College with a bachelor’s degree in biology, then spent five years as a nonprofit administrator before attending the University of Pennsylvania’s data science coding bootcamp. Emily shepherds new data through the established data processing pipelines for the lab, automates manual processing steps, and provides data subsets and additional data processing support to researchers. Her favorite function in the python pandas library is “merge_asof”.