Jonathan Bard
Research Assistant Professor, Biochemistry at University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Bard is a Research Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the University at Buffalo with 10+ years of experience integrating large-scale multiomic datasets to study initiation, progression, and recurrence of head and neck cancers. He combines hands-on core-facility leadership in Illumina sequencing operations with algorithm development for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, translating complex tumor microenvironment data into actionable insights. Trained with a PhD in Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics and a background in biochemistry and bioinformatics, he bridges experimental design and computational analysis across diverse projects. Known for advancing core services to support exploratory and boundary-pushing sequencing studies, he often develops bespoke bioinformatics tools to interpret challenging datasets.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bioinformatics at Canisius CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Genomics, and Bioinformatics at University at Buffalo
English
Github Skills (57)
single-cell-genomics10
rna-velocity10
genomics10
cran10
bioinformatics9
dna-sequences8
fastq-files7
ccr7
velocity7
ansible-collections5
snakemake4
approximate4
subtype4
wxwidgets4
fastq4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jebard/ACED
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:360 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
UBGBC/fastq-to-consensus
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
Handles the preprocessing from illumina fastq files through TREAT using SnakeMake
Contributions:82 commits, 59 pushes in 2 years 2 months
fastq-filesconsensusilluminafastqsnakemake
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