Ben Vezina
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBen Vezina is a cross-disciplinary postdoctoral research fellow with 10 years' experience blending molecular microbiology, genomics and bioinformatics to tackle antimicrobial resistance and applied biotechnology. He has led and delivered multiple first-author publications on pathogens affecting both agriculture and humans, and brings a rare workflow that couples large-scale computational analysis to guide targeted wet-lab experiments. At Monash he studies Klebsiella pneumoniae metabolism using population-scale genomic approaches and contributes to open tools like Bactabolize, while also consulting for industry on bacterial design and surveillance. His background includes developing live bacterial vaccines, characterising novel antimicrobial proteins, and designing an applied bioinformatics course, demonstrating both technical depth and teaching experience. Comfortable moving between R/Python analysis, structural biology and microbiology, he thrives on turning complex datasets into actionable experiments. He leverages international collaborations and diverse lab placements to bring pragmatic, multidisciplinary solutions to pressing pathogen problems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, H1, Honours, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, H1 at Deakin UniversityGlen Waverley Secondary CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular and Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Molecular and Microbiology at Monash University
Github Skills (88)
bacteria9
genomics8
population-genetics8
genomes7
microbial-genomics7
ncbi7
bioinformatics7
infectious-diseases7
fm-index7
genome-annotation7
sequencing6
sequence-alignment6
r-package6
genomics-visualization5
genome5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bananabenana/Metabolic_modelling_scripts
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
Scripts for improving and manipulating metabolic models using cobrapy.
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
bananabenana/slice_multi_gbk
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 months
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