Brian Knaus
Faculty Research Associate
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Knaus is an evolutionary genomicist and data-driven genome scientist with 12 years of experience translating large, complex biological datasets into insights for plant and forest systems. Currently a Faculty Research Associate and Research Associate at Oregon State University, he combines expertise in evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, and R development to lead high-throughput projects such as the Douglas-fir Climate Change Transcriptome Observatory. His career spans USDA-ARS and USFS research roles, where he developed pipelines for transcriptomics, population genomics, and season-long expression profiling. Comfortable with "any kingdom, any amount of data," he brings a rare blend of field-informed biology and computational rigor, publishing and sharing tools via GitHub and scholarly platforms. Based in Corvallis but rooted in Ann Arbor, he pairs a PhD in Botany and Plant Pathology with hands-on mentoring and reproducible research practice.
12 years of coding experience
The University of ArizonaPh. D., Botany and Plant Pathology, Ph. D., Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University
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Github Skills (82)
nmf10
rcpp10
genomics10
summarize10
genetic10
genome10
integrate10
r-package10
predict10
genetics10
visualization10
gwas10
bioinformatics10
population-genetics10
bam9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
knausb/pinfsc50
Sep 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
knausb/coveRage
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:110 pushes, 2 branches, 10 comments in 1 year 4 months
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