Alyssa Obermayer

University of South Florida / Moffitt Cancer Center

Alyssa Obermayer is a second-year Ph.D. student in Public Health with a concentration in Genomics at the University of South Florida, Tampa, advised by Dr. Xiaoming Liu, and a research data analyst at Moffitt Cancer Center, advised by Dr. Timothy Shaw. Her research emphasizes open-source tools for reproducible and interactive bioinformatics analysis, focusing recently on nonsense-mediated mRNA decay, its relationship with alternative splicing and transcript features, and their potential impact on treatment resistance in cancer. Outside of research, Alyssa enjoys Florida's nature trails, video games, puzzles, and her cats.

Conference

CSHL Biological Data Science 2026

Research Focus

• Open-source bioinformatics tool development
• Alternative splicing and treatment resistance
• Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay
• Real-world data analysis
• Cancer genomics and immunology
• Code and software optimization