JT McCrone
Assistant Professor at Fred Hutch
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJT McCrone is an Assistant Professor and computational biologist with 12 years of experience using molecular evolution and sequence data to track how pathogens evolve and spread. He combines deep academic training (PhD in Microbiology and Immunology) with applied industry experience at Helix and Fred Hutch to translate high-resolution viral genomics into actionable insights. His work spans development of sequencing and mathematical methods to characterize within-host viral diversity through population-scale surveillance and outbreak reconstruction. Having led projects from undergraduate membrane-protein studies to postdoctoral efforts in virus phylogenetics, he brings both wet-lab intuition and computational rigor to complex pathogen questions. Based in Seattle, he is known for bridging academic research and public-health practice to enable finer-grained epidemiological inference. Notably, his background includes hands-on method development that improves how sequence data are used to resolve transmission dynamics at high detail.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Microbiology and Immunology at University of MichiganBachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Mathmatics, 3.963, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry and Mathmatics, 3.963 at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spanish
Github Skills (24)
beast10
java10
mcmc10
bayesian10
evolution10
phylogenetics10
genome9
bioinformatics9
genomics8
pipeline8
javascript8
nodejs8
model-fitting7
sequence7
population-genetics7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rambaut/figtree.js
Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
Phylogenetic tree library for JavaScript/Node.js
Contributions:182 commits, 8 PRs, 144 pushes in 2 years 1 month
javascriptnodejs
mccronelab/mccronelab.github.io
Aug 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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