Carter Merenstein
Research Fellow at Boston Children's Hospital
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCarter Merenstein is a computational biology researcher and Research Fellow with a decade of hands-on experience studying microbiomes, viromes, and COVID-19 from sample collection to meta-omics analysis. He completed a PhD in Genomics and Computational Biology focused on respiratory tract microbiomes and COVID-19 severity and now holds joint postdoctoral appointments at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Carter blends wet-lab experience (amplicon sequencing, in vitro experiments) with advanced bioinformatics, including phage biology, epidemiological modeling, and pipelines for extracting viral and fungal signals from complex datasets. Known for translating messy field and clinical data into reproducible analyses, he brings a practical engineering mindset from earlier work building autonomous sampling hardware and teaching computational methods. Based in Philadelphia, he combines academic rigor with interdisciplinary curiosity that drives both method development and impactful translational research.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Upper Dublin High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Computer Science at Middlebury CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (25)
stochastic9
simulation7
sequence-alignment7
contact-tracing7
sequence7
dynamics6
simulator6
hierarchical4
bioinformatics4
bayesian4
agent4
modeling3
clustering3
nextflow2
synthetic2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cmerenstein/16sPrimersByPhyla
Oct 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
cmerenstein/HYDEN_copy
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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