Bastian Bentlage
Assistant Professor at University of Guam
Guam, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolBastian Bentlage is an evolutionary biologist and assistant professor based in Guam with 14 years of research experience studying macroevolution, population dynamics, and species interactions in marine and freshwater gelatinous zooplankton. He combines field-focused systematics and life-history studies with quantitative tools—GIS modeling, molecular genetics, and large-scale bioinformatics—to trace how jellyfish diversify and colonize novel habitats from coastal to deep sea. His work spans academic roles at the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and University of Kansas, and includes leading the bioinformatic analysis of hundreds of Illumina libraries for NSF-funded projects. Currently he is sharpening computer programming and system administration skills to scale genomic analyses, blending classical taxonomy with reproducible computational pipelines. Notably, he mentors museum outreach and student projects, translating complex phylogenetic findings into accessible identification tools and public engagement. This combination of field expertise, technical fluency, and science communication gives him a rare ability to connect deep-time evolutionary questions with contemporary genomic datasets.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, honors, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, honors at University of Kansaspre-degree, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, pre-degree, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, GermanyDiplom (MSc), Zoology/Animal Biology, Diplom (MSc), Zoology/Animal Biology at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
English, German, French
Github Skills (2)
singularity6
synchronize6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bastodian/NichePy
Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:67 commits in 2 months
bastodian/2017_BioinformaticsPhylogenetics
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:105 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.