Benjamin Tully
Chief Executive Officer at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Tully is a microbiome-focused CEO and bioinformatics specialist with 11 years translating deep-sea microbial ecology and metagenomics into practical, product-ready solutions. As founder and current CEO of Branchpoint Biosciences, he led the development of high-specificity microbial qPCR design that streamlines microbiome workflows for researchers and companies. He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at USC, bringing academic rigor from a PhD in Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography to commercial assay development. His background with C-DEBI and roles across academia and startups reflect a rare combination of field-driven ecological insight and hands-on computational reconstruction of the unseen microbial majority. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with technical fluency in bioinformatics and data science to make complex microbial dynamics actionable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography at University of Southern CaliforniaLetter of Completion, Data Science, Letter of Completion, Data Science at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts (BA), Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, 3.9, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, 3.9 at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
English, python
Github Skills (28)
consumption10
virus9
bioinformatics9
binder8
jekyll7
discovery7
architecture6
transcriptomics5
jupyter5
ecology4
genes4
systems-biology3
classify2
biology2
python2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
biovcnet/biovcnet.github.io
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:64 commits, 2 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 2 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
biovcnet/topic-functional-annotation
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
A repository for the lessons and notebooks used for Binder tutorials
Contributions:12 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
notebooksbinderjupyter
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