Eric Waltari
Bioinformatics Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Waltari is a Bioinformatics Scientist with a PhD in Biology and eight years of experience turning genomic, immunological, and spatial datasets into actionable insights at institutions including Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center. He designs and implements Unix- and R-based pipelines for adaptive immune repertoire analysis, phylogenetics, and interactive visualizations, and combines wet-lab NGS expertise (DNA/RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, primer design) with proteomic techniques such as piezoelectric protein array printing. His work spans host–pathogen genomics, evolutionary ecology, and GIS-driven biogeography, and he has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications while presenting internationally. Based in San Francisco, he is notable for building an R Shiny tool to explore antibody repertoires and for operationalizing rapid-response phylogenetic analyses that bridge fieldwork and computational workflows.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Zoology, B.S, Zoology at University of WashingtonBiology, Biology at University of Alaska FairbanksPh.D, Biology, Ph.D, Biology at Idaho State University
Github Skills (10)
sequence-alignment4
sequence4
sequencing2
bioinformatics2
infectious-diseases2
blast1
genomics1
structural-variation1
assembler1
bioconda1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
czbiohub-sf/AIRRscape
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 141 commits, 55 pushes in 1 year 9 months
czbiohub-sf/bcell_pipeline
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
Immcantation B-cell Repertoire Sequencing Pipeline adapted for Reflow
Contributions:305 commits, 1 PR, 91 pushes in 2 years
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