Christopher Mcfarland
Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Mcfarland is an Assistant Professor of Genetics & Genome Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and a cancer evolutionary biologist with 11 years of focused experience applying evolutionary theory to cancer. Trained with a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Harvard and a dual undergraduate background in Physics and Biochemistry, he blends quantitative modeling with next-generation genomic tools to study tumor evolution. Since 2012 he has built a research program that leverages computational methods to reveal how evolutionary dynamics shape cancer progression and therapy response. Based in Cleveland and affiliated with the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, he runs the McFarland Lab, which emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches and reproducible computational workflows. An uncommon strength is his physics-rooted intuition for stochastic processes, which informs both experimental design and algorithm development in his group.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biophysics at Harvard UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Physics & Biochemistry, Magna cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics & Biochemistry, Magna cum laude at University of Rochester
Github Skills (14)
bioinformatics10
microbiome10
taxonomy10
bioconductor10
metagenomics10
algorithm7
inference7
genomics4
file-format4
python3
sparse3
python-bindings2
linux1
population-genetics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cd-mcfarland/fast_prng
Jan 2015 - Nov 2021
A modified Ziggurat Algorithm for efficiently generating exponentially- and normally-distributed PseudoRandom Numbers (PRNs).
Contributions:1 review, 37 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 11 months
cancerevo/website
Sep 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:117 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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