David Humphreys
Manager Of Genomics Core at Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Humphreys is a genomics core leader and RNA biologist/bioinformatician with 13+ years’ experience bridging molecular biology and computational analysis at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Trained in both Biology and Computer Science, he discovered seminal mechanisms of miRNA-mediated mRNA degradation during his PhD and postdoc work and has since pivoted to deep sequencing technologies and RNA-Seq analysis. As Manager of the Genomics Core he runs the Proton sequencer, advises on experimental design, writes grants, and delivers end-to-end bioinformatic pipelines for RNA-Seq and whole exome/genome projects. He is the author of RNA-Seq tools including miRspring and Ularcirc, and maintains active collaborations exploring miRNA processing variants and non-coding RNAs in cardiac development. Known for combining hands-on wet-lab expertise with software development, he brings both operational leadership and method development to translational genomics workflows.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cell & molecular biology, PhD, Cell & molecular biology at University of Wollongong
Github Skills (19)
seq10
transcript10
rna-seq10
htmlwidgets9
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
transcriptomics9
genomics9
python-bindings9
shiny7
bioconductor7
kallisto7
pipeline5
nextflow5
nf-core3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
VCCRI/Ularcirc
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:96 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
VCCRI/ShinyCell
Mar 2023 - Feb 2025
Shiny Interactive Web Apps for Single-Cell Data
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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