Karthik Anantharaman
Associate Professor
Greater Madison Area United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Anantharaman is an Associate Professor at UW–Madison who leads an interdisciplinary research program probing phage–microbe metabolic interactions across human and environmental microbiomes to reveal impacts on health, dysbiosis, ecosystem change, and biogeochemistry. With a PhD in Microbiology and postdoctoral training in genomics at UC Berkeley, he blends computational biology, microbial and viral ecology, and biogeochemistry to develop open-access software and databases that support reproducible microbiome science. His lab’s work sits at the interface of theory and tool-building, enabling both fundamental discovery and practical analyses used by the community. A Visiting Professor at IIT Madras and active GitHub maintainer, he uniquely couples field-scale ecological insight with scalable computational methods.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Genome Sciences/Genomics, Postdoctoral Scholar, Genome Sciences/Genomics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, General at University of MichiganBachelor of Technology - BTech, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Civil Engineering at National Institute of Technology KarnatakaGithub contributions (5)
kanantharaman/metabolic-hmms
Sep 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
AnantharamanLab/Clostridium_scindens_mining
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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