Gytis Dudas
Research Professor at Ring Therapeutics
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolGytis Dudas is a research professor at Vilnius University’s Life Sciences Center with 14 years of experience in virus ecology and evolution, spanning genomic epidemiology to metagenomic discovery. He leads work on Wuhan mosquito virus 6, a globally distributed orthomyxovirus primarily infecting Culex mosquitoes, and has contributed to outbreak studies across influenza, RSV, Ebola, Zika, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. Trained as an evolutionary biologist with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, he blends rigorous field and lab science with strong computational skills and a passion for data visualization. An active open-science advocate, he contributes front-end enhancements to prominent projects like Nextstrain’s Auspice—adding animated Bezier map visualizations and a Lithuanian translation. He consults for translational research groups including Ring Therapeutics and has collaborated with institutions such as Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and Scripps Research, bridging academic research and applied public-health tools. Notably, he pairs deep virus-specific expertise with a matplotlib-savvy, developer-minded approach to making complex evolutionary data intelligible.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, RNA virus evolution, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, RNA virus evolution at The University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (8)
curve10
maps10
javascript10
d3js10
web-application10
bezier10
react9
internationalization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nextstrain/auspice
May 2017 - Mar 2020
Web app for visualizing pathogen evolution
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gytis primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the Auspice web app, focusing on implementing and modifying visualizations related to pathogen evolution. Key contributions include the integration of Bezier curves for animation effects on the map, enhancing the visualization of transmission paths. The user also added time-dependent control for Bezier curves and implemented a Lithuanian language translation, signifying work on both interactive features and internationalization.
pathogenreactevolutionvisualizingvisualization
czbiohub-sf/california-mosquito-study
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:77 commits, 60 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 6 months
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