J Monroe
Associate Professor
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolJ Monroe is an Associate Professor at UC Davis with a decade of experience at the intersection of plant evolutionary genomics and computational analysis. Trained with a PhD from Colorado State University, they progressed from postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute to faculty leadership, blending field-driven questions about plant adaptation to climate with hands-on R development and data analysis. Their background includes applied roles in industry and government (Cargill, USGS) that inform pragmatic, reproducible research practices and code-focused project work hosted on monroelab.org and GitHub. Based in Davis, CA, Monroe is known for turning complex genomic and ecological datasets into actionable insights and tools, often emphasizing open, shareable code for the research community.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Plant evolutionary genomics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Plant evolutionary genomics at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Molecular Biology at Appalachian State University
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
greymonroe/polymorphology
Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
Analyze genome-wide distributions of polymorphisms in relation to gene features
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year 8 months
distributionsgenomegenomicsbioinformaticsgene
greymonroe/heliophila
Jul 2018 - Aug 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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