Jacob Nearing
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJacob Nearing is a computational microbiologist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health with eight years of experience applying high-throughput omics and bespoke bioinformatics to probe microbial communities. Trained with a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Dalhousie University, he blends rigorous experimental insight with scalable computational pipelines to reveal microbiome function in health, disease, and environmental contexts. His work emphasizes novel analytical approaches for complex, multi-omic datasets and translating computational findings into testable biological hypotheses. Based in Boston, he is driven by building tools that make large-scale microbiome data more interpretable and reproducible—often tackling underexplored problems at the interface of ecology and host biology.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology and Immunology at Dalhousie University
Github Skills (45)
bioconductor10
linear-models9
microbiome9
metagenomics9
documentation8
profiling8
devops8
bioinformatics7
genomics7
covariance6
statistical-inference6
ecology6
genes6
genome-annotation5
r5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nearinj/Denoiser-Comparison
Dec 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:62 commits, 3 PRs, 55 pushes in 11 months
comparison
biobakery/parathaa
Apr 2024 - Oct 2025
Preserving and Assimilating Region-specific Ambiguities in Taxonomic Hierarchical Assignments for Amplicons (Parathaa)
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 6 months
python-tools
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