Benjamin Barad
Assistant Professor at Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Barad is an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University who applies in situ cryo-electron tomography and computational methods to reveal how mammalian cells are remodeled during intracellular bacterial infection. With 11 years of experience spanning academia and industry, he builds software and analysis pipelines that connect atomic structural biology to subcellular context, bridging scales that are often studied separately. His lab develops tools to contextualize membranes, filaments, and protein complexes from pristine 3D cellular snapshots, translating challenging experimental data into mechanistic insight. Previously he advanced on-the-fly cryo-EM analysis at Genentech and used focused ion beam milling to probe mitochondrial fission at Scripps, highlighting a rare blend of hands-on microscopy, method development, and computational rigor.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Harvard Westlake SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biophysics at University of California, San FranciscoBachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Chemistry at Stanford University
Github Skills (47)
github-pages10
jekyll10
regularization9
imaging9
matplotlib7
macbook-pro7
nvidia7
touchbar7
microscopy7
segmentation6
package-control6
ctf6
image-processing6
webserver5
cuda5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fraser-lab/EMRinger
Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 23 pushes in 4 years 6 months
bbarad/wisemanlab.github.io
Apr 2020 - Jun 2025
Fraser Lab website
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
lablab-website
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