Ashton Belew
Post Doctoral Fellow at University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolAshton Belew is a PhD-trained cell biologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Maryland with 17 years of hands-on experience in RNA biology and high-throughput sequencing techniques. He combines deep wet-lab expertise—RNAseq, TNseq, ribosome profiling, RNA destruction assays, cloning, SHAPE—with computational "nerdery" developed over years using tools like Perl and MySQL to analyze complex datasets. Comfortable failing fast and iterating, he excels at translating messy experimental results into reproducible analyses and clear biological insight. Based in College Park, MD, Ashton blends a systems-minded approach from earlier systems programming work with rigorous academic training to tackle hard problems at the interface of molecular biology and data science. An understated strength is his ability to move between bench and code, enabling end-to-end project ownership from experiment design to computational interpretation.
17 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
ba, Biology, ba, Biology at Wesleyan UniversityThe University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (67)
annotations10
genomes10
knitr10
bioconductor10
genomics10
r-package10
infectious-diseases10
pathogen10
visualization10
bioinformatics10
r9
doi9
emacs9
biological-data-analysis9
sweave9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
khughitt/EuPathDB
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
EuPathDB recipe for the Bioconductor AnnotationHub
Contributions:171 commits, 40 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years 10 months
bioconductor
elsayed-lab/hpgltools
Dec 2014 - Jan 2023
A collection of R functions to aid in host-pathogen genomic research
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1398 commits in 8 years 2 months
pathogenannotationshostplotting-in-rrna-seq-analysis
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