George Emanuel
Founding Member at Vizgen
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Emanuel is a biophysicist and founding member at Vizgen with 11 years of experience building technologies to interrogate biology at systems scale. He combines deep experimental expertise in spatially resolved, single-cell transcriptomics with computational and analytical skills developed from single-molecule data analysis and applied mathematics. During his PhD in Xiaowei Zhuang’s lab he invented a high-throughput, image-based screening platform used for diverse genetic perturbations and fluorescent protein engineering. At Harvard he translated those methods into spatial transcriptomic tools as a postdoc, discovering new cell types and their tissue organization. Based in Cambridge, MA, George bridges academic rigor and startup execution, helping turn cutting-edge assays into scalable products. He brings an unusual blend of hands-on wet-lab invention and quantitative software tooling that accelerates biological discovery.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biophysics at Harvard UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (13)
bioinformatics10
extensible10
genomics10
pyqt10
merlin10
decoding10
pipeline9
geometric7
forloop6
python6
if-statement6
manipulation5
geometry4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
emanuega/storm-control-george
Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
Zhuang lab microscope control software
Contributions:61 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 2 months
microscope-controllabmicroscope
ZhuangLab/MERlin
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
MERFISH decoding software
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
decodingmerfish
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