I'm Anna (she/her), a genomic data scientist at Bayer Crop Science. I work on a variety of projects across plant breeding pipelines, bringing together a background in quantitative genetics, statistics, and plant breeding expertise to connect how we breed to performance in a customer's field.

🌸 I partner directly with key stakeholders to co-create analytics bridging the gap between theory and practice, resulting in quick model and metric adoption, and clear opportunities for partners to engage in continued analytics development. This has lead to models I develop being used throughout our breeding pipelines all the way to our commercial organization. Some top skills I bring to a team:
      🌸 Enabling Data Scientist: Democratizing use of data in breeding pipelines by spending time embedded within key partner teams and bringing their feedback into our tools.
      🌸 Stakeholder Partnership: Collaboration from step one to ensure our breeding partners have the tools we need and confidence to use them.
      🌸 Mentorship & Service: Focus on giving back to our community through mentoring, serving as a leader internally, and partnering with key external collaborators.

✨ Problems that excite me:
      ✨ Developing tailored data visualization tools for communication & democratization of data literacy
      ✨ Pairing real-world data with appropriate statistical analyses that meet partner needs and keep things parsimonius       ✨ Working with limited data to provide context and help design future experiments

🌱 I’m currently learning:
      🌱 About the world of design and how we can better communicate complex information to support breeders.
      🌱 About the commonalities and differences between many crops grown worldwide.

📊 I primarily code in R, Python, and SQL. I also have experience in github, domino, and AWS.
      📊 Specialty software for breeding: ASReml, Echidna MMS, BGLR
      📊 On the side I have dabbled in webscaping, primarily in Python

⚡ Fun fact: I'm very into knitting and really enjoy thinking about the math and structures we can use to create!

I cannot share projects from my current job, but for some highlights of my work, I have the following selected presentations and publications:
      -Think, Then Think Again: Evolving Instruments in the Plant Breeder’s Toolkit, Anna R. Rogers, Invited Talk & Panel at the National Association of Plant Breeders Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO, July 22nd, 2024
      -Environment Specific Genomic Prediction Ability in Maize using Environmental Covariates Depends on Environmental Similarity to Training Data. Anna R. Rogers and James Holland, et. al. 2022, G3
      -Genomic Prediction for the Germplasm Enhancement of Maize Project. Anna R. Rogers, Yang Bian, James Holland, et. al. 2022, The Plant Genome
      -The importance of dominance and genotype-by-environment interactions on grain yield variation in a large-scale public cooperative maize experiment. Anna R. Rogers, James B. Holland, et. al. 2021, G3

This is just a quick look at my experience, for more in depth information feel free to check out my resume or CV.
Data Scientist @ Bayer Crop Science (2021 - present)
Genetics Ph.D. @ North Carolina State University (2016 - 2021)
Statistics MS @ North Carolina State University (2018-2020)