Erich Schwarz
Assistant Research Professor at Cornell University
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErich Schwarz is an Assistant Research Professor and molecular biologist with 11 years of focused experience in functional genomics, specializing in sequencing and comparative analysis of genomes and transcriptomes across Caenorhabditis species and parasitic nematodes. Based in Ithaca and trained at Caltech (Ph.D.) and Harvard (A.B.), he has driven long-term genomics projects at Cornell and Caltech, bridging basic C. elegans research with translational studies on parasites like Ancylostoma ceylanicum. His work combines deep wet-lab knowledge with computational genomics, contributing to genome annotation efforts (including WormBase collaborations) that underpin nematode biology. Notably, he has steadily expanded his scope from neurogenetics to diverse nematode comparative genomics, reflecting a career-long commitment to leveraging sequencing to answer evolutionary and biomedical questions.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyA.B., Biochemical Sciences, A.B., Biochemical Sciences at Harvard University
Github Skills (80)
genomes10
mer10
minhash10
genome10
ncbi9
unzip9
graph-traversal9
genomics9
prediction9
bioinformatics9
genome-annotation9
count-min-sketch9
blast8
duplication8
illumina8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SchwarzEM/ems_perl
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:335 commits, 495 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
SchwarzEM/khmer
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
graph-traversalmemorysequencenucleotide-sequencek-mer-counting
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