Daniel Roush
Biology Faculty at South Piedmont Community College
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Roush is a microbiome data scientist and biology faculty member with nine years of experience translating wet-bench microbiology into actionable, data-driven insights for academia and industry. He completed a PhD at ASU studying endolithic phototrophs and has postdoctoral experience building bioinformatics pipelines and phylogenetic tools for microbiome research in the Qiyun Zhu lab. Daniel has applied those skills in the field as a microbiome data scientist for dairy producers, turning rich longitudinal milk-production datasets into practical interventions and educational outreach. Based in Charlotte, NC, he blends hands-on lab expertise with modern data science methods, and is especially skilled at adapting cutting-edge metagenomic approaches to real-world agricultural and environmental problems. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to teach complex quantitative concepts to non-specialists, ensuring new technologies are both adopted and understood.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology, General, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology, General at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Microbiology, General, Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology, General at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (14)
microbiome10
ncbi10
classifier10
bioconductor10
metagenomics9
hierarchical9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology8
genomics8
cytoscapejs8
taxonomy8
inference4
phylogenetic-trees4
d3js2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FGPLab/cydrasil
Aug 2018 - Jul 2021
Cydrasil: A comprehensive phylogenetic tree of cyanobacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences
Contributions:6 releases, 88 commits, 11 PRs in 3 years
ncbi16shierarchicalcytoscapejsgenomics
droush/cydrasil-web-app
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Source code for the Cydrasil web application
Contributions:14 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 month
web-applicationvuevuejs
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