Firas Midani
Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFiras Midani is an assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine with a decade of experience studying how the gut microbiome shapes nutrition, infection outcomes, and the gut-brain axis. He combines training in computational biology, bioinformatics, and microbial ecology with applied machine learning to model microbiome dynamics and translate findings into mechanistic insights. His trajectory spans a PhD from Duke, postdoctoral metagenomics work in a leading Baylor lab, and research roles at Michigan, reflecting deep interdisciplinary fluency from wet lab to computational modeling. Known for blending ecological principles with statistical rigor, he designs experiments and analyses that reveal how community interactions drive host health in non-obvious ways. Based in Houston, he leads collaborative projects that bridge basic science and translational potential.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Duke UniversityM.S.E Biomedical Engineering, M.S.E Biomedical Engineering at University of Michigan
Arabic, English
Github Skills (5)
bioinformatics10
conda10
package-management10
bioconda10
amiga8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
firasmidani/firasmidani.github.io
Jul 2017 - Jul 2024
Contributions:432 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 1 month
firasmidani/amiga
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Analysis of Microbial Growth Assays
Contributions:3 releases, 143 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 9 months
microbial
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