Jesse Mcnichol
Assistant Professor at St. Francis Xavier University
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolJesse Mcnichol is an Assistant Professor and marine microbial ecologist with a PhD from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program and nine years of research experience spanning deep-sea hydrothermal vents to coastal sediments. He combines field-based expertise (cruise work, microoxic cultivation, CARD-FISH) with molecular and bioinformatic skills to study microbial roles in ocean biogeochemistry and to develop basin-scale biogeochemical models. His postdoctoral work at USC was funded by the Simons Foundation to translate microbial processes into large-scale ocean models, reflecting a rare bridge between hands-on microbiology and quantitative modeling. Prior roles in Hong Kong and Canada produced novel high-throughput isolation methods and single-cell genomic insights into sulfur-oxidizing and roseobacter-group bacteria. Based in Los Angeles and now leading research and teaching at St. Francis Xavier University, he maintains an active portfolio of analytical chemistry and cultivation techniques that enable lab-to-ocean inference. An understated strength is his track record of mentoring students in developing novel laboratory workflows that yielded multiple novel isolates from challenging environments.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, Ph.D., Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (61)
minhash10
bioconductor10
qiime10
bioinformatics9
microbiome9
metagenomics9
genomics8
r-package8
snakemake8
taxonomy8
r7
python7
genome-annotation7
sketching7
oceanography7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fuhrman-lab/academic-kickstart
Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
jcmcnch/stfx-microeco-lab
Aug 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:132 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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