Bryan Lajoie
Principal Scientist at Element Biosciences
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Lajoie is a Principal Scientist with a PhD in Bioinformatics and over a decade of experience building genomics tools, algorithms, and production software for research and clinical sequencing. He has driven product-ready solutions at Illumina and helped create a new DNA sequencing platform at Element Biosciences, bridging deep computational method development with customer-facing integration and product strategy. His work spans end-to-end pipelines for WGS, RNA-Seq and 3D genome assays (co-inventor of Hi-C) and includes large-scale data processing, automation and reference architecture design. Comfortable working across research, engineering, and commercial teams, he repeatedly converts novel research insights into practical, regulated workflows. Based in San Diego, he combines high-impact academic pedigree (many top-tier publications) with hands-on product delivery in genomics and diagnostics.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at UMass Chan Medical School
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Github Skills (121)
python10
cancer-genomics10
genomics10
nf-core10
bam10
nextflow10
htslib10
data-visualization10
fasta10
bioconda10
component-based10
aggregate10
genome10
sequencing10
pypi10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dekkerlab/cworld-dekker
Aug 2015 - May 2016
perl cworld module and collection of utility/analysis scripts for C data (3C, 4C, 5C, Hi-C)
Contributions:114 commits, 1 push, 3 comments in 9 months
nim-langperl5manualperlhi-c
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