Clay Wright
Associate Professor
Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClay Wright is an associate professor and synthetic biologist with a decade of experience engineering proteins, signaling pathways, and genetically tractable microbes and plants to advance environmental and global health solutions. He leads a multidisciplinary lab at Virginia Tech that combines synthetic and computational biology, directed evolution, and bioinformatics to build biosensors and quantitative tools for agriculture and biomanufacturing, managing annual research budgets over $300k and mentoring trainees from high school to postdocs. Trained as a chemical and biomolecular engineer (PhD, Johns Hopkins), Clay has translated bench-level expertise in mutagenesis and library design into entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder and grant-winning innovator. He also designs course-based research experiences and data-focused curricula, reflecting a commitment to reproducible research and workforce development in engineering biology.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityJohns Hopkins University
German
Github Skills (22)
stable10
shell9
linux8
r8
r-package8
unix8
data-wrangling7
bash7
knitr7
automation7
data-visualization5
bioconductor5
data-visualisation4
bioinformatics4
latex3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wrightrc/ViVa
Dec 2018 - Feb 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
wrightrc/r1001genomes
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:175 commits, 125 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 7 months
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