Falk Hildebrand
Postdoctoral Researcher at EMBL
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolFalk Hildebrand is a postdoctoral researcher and bioinformatician with over a decade of hands-on experience in DNA sequencing and metagenomics, focused on bacterial genetics, population structure, and strain-level variation. Based at EMBL and previously supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship, he combines single-species assembly and annotation with high-throughput metagenomic analyses to trace bacterial evolution and species delineation. His work spans diverse host microbiomes—especially human fecal metagenomes—aiming to identify genomic features that drive disease-associated shifts in conditions like obesity, diabetes, Crohn’s, and Parkinson’s. Falk complements empirical analyses with rigorous statistical methods and visualization tools developed during his PhD, reflecting a strong background in both methods development and applied microbiome research. He has international research experience from collaborations at the University of Sussex, DTU, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a foundational training in ecology and evolutionary biology that informs his population-genetics perspective. Notably, he emphasizes that subtle microbiota–disease associations can meaningfully affect patient quality of life if dissected with sufficient data and careful feature selection.
9 years of coding experience
Diplom, Biology, General, Diplom, Biology, General at University of KonstanzMaster's degree, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology, Master's degree, Ecology, Evolution, Systematics, and Population Biology at University of Sussex
Github Skills (65)
package-management10
bioconda10
conda10
bioinformatics10
python-bindings10
microbiome9
genomics9
ancestor9
sequence9
ssa9
sequencing9
fasta8
pipeline8
galaxy8
chimera8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hildebra/LCA
Mar 2017 - Sep 2023
least common ancestor evaluation given tax database and
Contributions:4 releases, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
satancestorevaluationdatabasetax
hildebra/lotus2
May 2020 - Jan 2025
Amplicon sequencing pipelines suitable for SSU (16S, 18S), LSU (23S, 28S) and ITS.
Contributions:27 releases, 14 PRs, 254 pushes in 4 years 8 months
sequencepipeline16sampliconpython-bindings
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