Marnin Wolfe
Assistant Professor Of Quantitative Genetics
Auburn, Alabama, United States
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Top SchoolMarnin Wolfe is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Genetics with a decade of experience applying genomic prediction, GWAS, and high-throughput phenotyping to plant breeding and sustainable cropping systems. Trained as an evolutionary plant ecologist (PhD, Univ. of Pittsburgh), he blends fundamental research on multivariate trait inheritance with applied breeding programs—currently establishing cover crop and forage cultivar pipelines at Auburn aimed at improving soil health, ecosystem services, and farmer resilience in the Southeastern US. He spent nearly nine years advancing NextGen Cassava breeding at Cornell, delivering genomic evaluations across international breeding networks and translating cutting-edge genomic selection methods into on-the-ground varietal improvement. His work uniquely interrogates the genetics of species interactions in mixed-cropping systems and pursues intercropping solutions for cassava farmers in Africa and Latin America. Equally comfortable in field trials and computational genetic evaluation, he emphasizes reproducible methods and sustainable design to make genetics actionable for climate-adaptive agriculture.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology at Eckerd CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (22)
mate9
perl9
genomics8
genetic8
bioinformatics8
code-behind8
covariance6
r5
python5
simplify5
simulation4
project-management4
organize4
rmarkdown3
version-control3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wolfemd/genomicMateSelectR
Aug 2021 - Jul 2022
Genomic Mate Selection
Contributions:27 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
pythonmatebioinformaticsselectiongenomic
wolfemd/predCrossVar
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:58 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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