Drew Behrens
Researcher PhD Candidate
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDrew Behrens is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry with 11 years of scientific experience combining classical molecular biology and advanced bioinformatics. He leads the primary bioinformatics setup for his group, developing tools for big-data analysis and machine learning focused on NGS to probe protein homeostasis and translation elongation. A classically trained geneticist with an M.Sc. from the University of Pretoria, he has translated wet-lab insight into scalable computational pipelines that make complex sequencing datasets actionable for hypothesis-driven research. Collegial and discovery-driven, Drew has earned competitive awards and scholarships and is known for effectively communicating large-scale biological data to multidisciplinary teams. Not obvious from his title: he routinely bridges experimental design and algorithm development, ensuring computational methods are tightly grounded in molecular mechanisms.
11 years of coding experience
University of Pretoria
Github Skills (24)
package-management10
seq10
conda10
sequencing10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
modification10
bioconda10
nextflow9
outlier-detection9
diagnostics9
nf-core8
immunology8
chip-seq8
r8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
drewjbeh/ngs_scripts
Aug 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
nedialkova-lab/mim-tRNAseq
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Modification-induced misincorporation tRNA sequencing
Contributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 698 commits in 4 years 6 months
bioinformaticsmodificationsequencingtrna
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