Lamprinos Frantzeskakis
Gene Sourcing Lead at Bayer
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolLamprinos Frantzeskakis is a computational life scientist and Gene Sourcing Lead with a decade of experience bridging metagenomics, fungal pathogen biology, and crop science to translate genomic discovery into product-ready solutions. At Bayer he leads microbial biospecimen and gene sourcing strategies while managing a team and external collaborations to advance insect control and herbicide tolerance programs. His background spans postdoctoral work at JGI, Berkeley Lab and RWTH Aachen on comparative and population genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and experimental evolution of plant pathogens, giving him deep expertise in cereal and root-associated microbe systems. Known for introducing novel omics assays and pipeline improvements, he combines hands-on molecular biology and sequencing protocol development with data-driven predictive methods for microbial performance. Based in St. Louis, he pairs academic rigor from a PhD in fungal biology with industry-focused leadership, uniquely positioning him to move complex genomic insights into scalable agricultural solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Agronomy and Crop Science, Master's degree, Agronomy and Crop Science at Agricultural University of AthensMaster's degree, Plant Sciences, Master's degree, Plant Sciences at The University of BonnDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fungal Biology & Comparative Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Fungal Biology & Comparative Genomics at University of Düsseldorf
Github Skills (23)
genome-analysis8
bam7
genome7
genomics6
bioinformatics6
blast6
genomes4
infectious-diseases4
sequencing4
pathogen4
six3
illumina3
next-generation-sequencing3
translation2
viewer2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lambros-f/paraun_2018
Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
Scripts used for the P. polyspora genome analysis
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
genomegenomicsgenome-analysisbioinformaticsbam
lambros-f/blumeria_2017
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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