Brant Faircloth
Moreland Family Professor at Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolBrant Faircloth is a Moreland Family Professor at Louisiana State University with nearly two decades of experience as a field biologist, molecular ecologist, and vertebrate geneticist. His research blends vertebrate genomics and phylogenomics with development of molecular and computational methods, translating field-collected biodiversity data into genomic insight. He has progressed through LSU faculty ranks since 2014 and holds a PhD in Wildlife Genetics from the University of Georgia, pairing deep ecological knowledge with quantitative genomics. Based in Baton Rouge, he combines hands-on field expertise with bioinformatics, often bridging wet-lab challenges and algorithmic solutions—a profile that makes him equally at home collecting tissues in the field or troubleshooting phylogenomic pipelines.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaBiology, English, Biology, English at Middlebury College
Github Skills (69)
package-management10
command-line-tool10
phylogeny10
bioconda10
cactus10
preprocess10
conda10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
edit-distance9
pthreads9
genome9
gridengine8
genomics8
genomes8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
faircloth-lab/protocols
May 2017 - Jan 2021
Our laboratory repository
Contributions:107 commits, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
faircloth-lab/edittag
Apr 2012 - Mar 2019
edit distance sequence tags and helpers
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 years
edit-distance
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