Bryan Merrill
Bioinformatics Scientist
Monrovia, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Merrill is a bioinformatics scientist with 11 years of experience translating terabase-scale microbiome sequencing and multi-omics into biological insight and therapeutic leads. He builds reproducible, cloud-deployable pipelines (Nextflow, Docker, AWS) and combines public and in-house datasets to unlock host-phenotype relationships and discover novel gut microbes. His work spans industry and academia—from developing disease and drug-response prediction models at Nuanced Health to terabase analyses of Hadza gut microbiomes and phage discovery during a Stanford PhD—resulting in multiple high-impact publications. A collaborative bridge between bench and computation, he has a track record of turning large, messy datasets into actionable hypotheses and even practical phage therapies for bee disease, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that extends beyond the lab bench.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham Young UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University
Github Skills (71)
genome-assembly10
next-generation-sequencing10
genome10
sequencing10
illumina10
nmf9
bioconductor9
assembler9
bioinformatics9
comparative-genomics9
population-genetics9
microbiology9
metagenomics9
ncbi8
minhash8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
byuphamerator/phamerator-dev
Aug 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years
brymerr921/VirSorterParser
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
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