Henk Bakker
Associate Professor
Griffin, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolHenk Bakker is an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia with a decade of experience bridging bioinformatics, epidemiology, and evolutionary genomics. His academic trajectory — from a PhD in Mycology at Leiden to postdoctoral and research roles at Cornell — centers on population genetics and the evolution of foodborne pathogens and symbiotic fungi. He has progressed through faculty positions at Texas Tech and UGA, combining quantitative genomics with applied epidemiology to inform public health and food safety. Colleagues know him for translating complex genomic data into actionable insights, and for an uncommon depth in fungal systematics that informs his pathogen evolution work. Based in Griffin, Georgia, he maintains a research-first approach that frequently integrates computational methods with field-relevant questions.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Mycology, Ph.D., Mycology at Leiden University
Dutch, English
Github Skills (38)
confirmation10
spp10
classifier9
sequence8
bioinformatics8
data-structure7
rapid7
ncbi6
machine-learning5
journal5
genome5
mer4
assembly4
in-memory4
genomics4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hcdenbakker/SalmID
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Rapid confirmation of Salmonella spp. and subspp. from sequence data
Contributions:5 releases, 49 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 4 months
salmonellasequencesppbioinformaticsrapid
hcdenbakker/sepia
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
taxonomic classifier based on the kraken2 algorithms and more
Contributions:5 releases, 58 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 3 months
classifiermachine-learningkraken2
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