Holly Bik
Associate Director, Institute Of Bioinformatics
Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolHolly Bik is an associate director and tenured professor with 14 years of experience applying molecular and computational approaches to the biodiversity, evolution, and ecology of marine sediment microbes, with a particular focus on eukaryotic taxa and deep-sea ecosystems. She leads a research group that bridges biology and computer science, developing reproducible, open-source bioinformatics workflows and exploratory visualization tools to translate high-throughput sequencing, metagenomics, and targeted genome data into evolutionary and taxonomic insight. Her career spans academic roles from postdoctoral work on Deepwater Horizon-impacted sediments to faculty positions at UC Riverside and the University of Georgia, where she now combines leadership, teaching, and active research. Notably, her work emphasizes integrating morphological taxonomy with -Omic methods to improve taxonomic assignment for eukaryotes—an often overlooked gap in environmental sequencing pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Ph.D., Molecular Biology at University of SouthamptonBSc, Biological Sciences, BSc, Biological Sciences at King's College London
Github Skills (28)
genomes9
computational-biology9
stable8
biology8
scientific-publications8
bioinformatics7
genomics7
shell7
automation6
linux6
bash6
datasets6
visualization6
unix6
reproducible-science6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BikLab/lab-onboarding
Jul 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 comment, 1 issue in 7 years 3 months
hollybik/protocols
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 4 months
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