Krista L. DeStasio, M.S.

E-mail: kdestasio@gmail.com
GitHub: https://github.com/kdestasio
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdestasio/

EDUCATION

DATABASE SPECIALIST CERTIFICATE, 2020
LANE COMMUNINTY COLLEGE (EUGENE, OR)

MASTER OF SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, 2018
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (Eugene, OR)
Master’s Thesis Advisor: Dr. Elliot Berkman

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, 2010
MINOR IN PHILOSOPHY
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA (YORK, PA)
Honors in Psychology, Graduated Suma Cum Laude

LANGUAGES & TOOLS

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHER
Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab, University of Oregon
2016 – 2019

• Developed and maintained an open-source quality checking and preprocessing pipeline for neuroimaging data and JSON metadata files using Python. https://github.com/kdestasio/bidsQC
• Programmed computerized tasks for use during fMRI scans using PsychoPy. https://github.com/kdestasio/child_task and adapted extant MATLAB tasks.
• Regularly conducted complex analyses of survey, behavioral, and neuroimaging data using MATLAB, R, and Bash, applying explanatory and predictive models.

CO-ORGANIZER
University of Oregon Data Science Club, University of Oregon
2017 – 2019

• Developed and taught programming tutorials to graduate students and faculty. Topics included: Creating websites with Hugo using R, HTML and CSS | Introduction to Git and GitHub | R Shiny applications | Programming basics for research scientists.

CO-ORGANIZER
Brainhack Global, Eugene Chapter
2017 & 2018

• Organized a series of talks and workshops to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration on neuroscience projects.
• Developed and led a workshop on Brain Imaging Data Structure for non-experts.

PROJECT COORDINATOR
Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon
2014 – 2016

• Collected and analyzed Behavioral and fMRI data using standard tools (R, MATLAB, SPM12b, FSL).
• Mentored research assistants in the use of neuroimaging and programming tools (SPM, BASH, FSL, Git/GitHub).

PUBLICATIONS

DeStasio, K. L., Clithero, J. A., & Berkman, E. T. (2019). Neuroeconomics, health psychology, and the interdisciplinary study of preventative health behavior. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(10), e12500.

Yarkoni, Tal, Markiewicz, Christopher J., de la Vega, Alejandro, Gorgolewski, Krzysztof J., Salo, Taylor, Halchenko, Yaroslav O., McNamara, Quinten, DeStasio, Krista, et al., (2019). PyBIDS: Python tools for BIDS datasets. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(40), 1294, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.01294

DeStasio, Krista L., Hill, Anne P. and Berkman, Elliot T. (2018) Efficacy of an SMS-Based Smoking Intervention Using Message Self-Authorship: A Pilot Study. Journal of Smoking Cessation, 13(1), 55-58.

FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

SERVICE & OUTREACH