Duncan Berger
Senior Bioinformatician
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDuncan Berger is a senior bioinformatician with nine years of experience bridging academic and public-health genomics, now leading analysis at the Francis Crick Institute. He has designed and coordinated large international sequencing initiatives—from chromosomal-scale assemblies of eukaryotic parasites to global surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae—producing curated genomic resources used to interrogate population structure and adaptive drug resistance. Comfortable translating complex results for diverse stakeholders, he also mentors and trains teams to embed robust bioinformatics workflows into research and surveillance pipelines. Trained at Cambridge with a research MSc from Edinburgh, Duncan combines deep hands-on genome assembly and variant-analysis expertise with practical experience in governmental pathogen genomics, making him adept at turning large, messy datasets into actionable insight.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
MSc by Research Infectious Diseases, MSc by Research Infectious Diseases at The University of EdinburghDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological Sciences at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science (BSc) Biology with Industry Experience, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biology with Industry Experience at University of Bath
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Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics4
bioconda4
genomics3
protein-sequences1
comparative-genomics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
duncanberger/PZQ_POPGEN
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 237 commits, 146 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ukhsa-collaboration/LOMA
Sep 2024 - Mar 2025
A Nextflow pipeline designed to classify, align and assemble nanopore metagenomic reads.
Contributions:3 PRs, 159 pushes, 6 comments in 6 months
metagenomic-pipelineoxford-nanopore-sequencing
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