Chris Ward
Research Scientist at The Australian Wine Research Institute
Greater Adelaide Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ward is a research scientist blending genetics and computational approaches to dissect how populations adapt in natural and agricultural systems, with nine years’ experience. He completed a PhD in Genetics, Genomics and Evolution at the University of Adelaide and has mapped adaptive trait loci across diverse organisms from Queensland fruit fly to Brassica rapa and the diamondback moth. Now at the Australian Wine Research Institute he applies population genomics and bioinformatics to unravel domestication-related adaptations in grapevine and brewer's yeast. His background spans wet-lab genetics and scalable computational analysis, enabling cross-disciplinary projects from field collections to high-throughput sequencing pipelines. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex evolutionary questions into tractable genomic experiments and reproducible code-driven analyses. Based in Greater Adelaide, he brings both deep domain expertise and practical experience delivering research that informs crop and fermentation industry outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Genomics and Evolution, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Genomics and Evolution at University of Adelaide
Github Skills (10)
r7
sequencing5
genomics4
infectious-diseases4
bioinformatics4
pathogen4
next-generation-sequencing4
fasta3
sequence3
genome2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CMWbio/geaR
Aug 2018 - Nov 2022
Genomic evolutionary analysis in R
Contributions:97 commits, 3 PRs, 83 pushes in 4 years 3 months
r
UofABioinformaticsHub/shinyNgsreports
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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