Charles Foster
Senior Lecturer (Bioinformatics)
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Foster is a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics with nine years of research and teaching experience grounded in a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney. He applies advanced statistical frameworks—Bayesian, maximum-likelihood, and GLMMs—to large-scale biological datasets to answer fundamental questions in evolutionary biology. Since 2020 he has led bioinformatics research at UNSW, translating complex analyses into numerous peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals and earning multiple research awards. He routinely bridges research and education, having taught evolutionary genetics across undergraduate levels while curating herbarium collections early in his career. Colleagues value his knack for turning intricate models into clear, reproducible results and for communicating findings to both specialist and generalist audiences.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
English, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (112)
virus10
blast10
next-generation-sequencing9
bcftools9
rna-seq9
taxonomy9
nmf9
samtools9
bioinformatics9
genome9
sequencing9
biodiversity9
metagenomics9
genomics8
kraken8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
charlesfoster/ont-analysis-toolkit
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
A toolkit for monitoring ONT MinION sequencing, followed by data analysis, for viral genomes amplified with tiled amplicon sequencing.
Contributions:7 releases, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
genomestilednanoporesars-cov-2bioinformatics
charlesfoster/useful_scripts
Nov 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 60 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 4 months
bash
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