Jason Wood
Bioinformatics Specialist
Wheaton, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Wood is a bioinformatics specialist with 14 years of experience translating ecological theory into computational insights for extreme environments, from Yellowstone hot springs to the microgravity and high-radiation habitats of the International Space Station. He holds a PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences and combines deep domain knowledge with hands-on software engineering—authoring custom pipelines in Perl, Java, Fortran, R, and Bash and operating HPC and Ubuntu/Linux servers for large-scale genomic, metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, and metaproteomic analyses. At JPL he supported planetary protection and biotechnology goals by developing microgravity-compatible sampling hardware, leading field expeditions, and teaching bioinformatics across the group. Jason’s work spans both sample collection in constrained, safety-sensitive environments and development of automated sample-to-sequence workflows, demonstrating a rare mix of fieldwork grit and computational rigor. Based in Wheaton, Illinois, he now leverages that cross-cutting expertise to advance microbial diversity and contamination control efforts in academic and aerospace settings.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University-Bozeman
English, Spanish
Github Skills (38)
minecraft10
unix10
hyper-v10
linux10
vdi10
mappings10
cygwin10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
shell10
server10
subsystem10
scenarios9
gameserver9
crowdin9
x118
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sandain/es2
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 284 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 11 months
sandain/R
Oct 2017 - Apr 2023
Repository of R scripts
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
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