Gregory Owens
Assistant Professor at University of Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolGregory Owens is an evolutionary biologist and bioinformatician with 12 years of experience applying genomic-scale analyses to questions of adaptation, hybridization, and introgression. As an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria following postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and UBC, he develops custom pipelines and scripts to process large next‑generation sequencing datasets and extract evolutionary signal. He has experience advising industry on NGS analysis and linkage mapping from his consulting role at Xenon Pharmaceuticals, bridging academic research and practical bioinformatics workflows. Based in Victoria, BC, he combines deep domain knowledge from a PhD in Botany with hands-on computational expertise, often focusing on nuanced gene flow patterns that standard pipelines miss.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biology, General, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biology, General at University of VictoriaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Botany, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Botany at The University of British Columbia
English
Github Skills (44)
reformatting10
genome10
sequencing9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
science8
gwas8
spark-ml8
spark7
genomes7
gatk7
python7
caller6
gwas-pipeline6
apache-spark6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
owensgl/haploblocks
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:103 commits, 100 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
owensgl/pop_gen
Aug 2014 - Jan 2019
Contributions:31 commits, 20 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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