Matt Durrant
Life Science Researcher at Anthropic
United States
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Top SchoolMatt Durrant is a life science researcher and computational biologist with a decade of experience bridging genomics, machine learning, and molecular tool discovery. He earned a PhD in Genetics from Stanford and has led research programs at Arc Institute (where he published on recombinases and genomic language models), consulted in industry, and mined large biological datasets at UC Berkeley. Currently at Anthropic, he focuses on biological applications of AI, following a stint as a senior scientist and principal research scientist developing Evo language models and characterizing novel recombinases. Comfortable moving between wet-lab collaborations and computational method development, he has a track record of turning mobile genetic elements into engineered tools. An entrepreneurially minded researcher, he co-founded a med-tech startup early in his career and has repeatedly translated academic insights into practical platforms.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, Minor in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, BS, Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, Minor in Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude at Brigham Young UniversityHillcrest High SchoolPhD, Genetics, PhD, Genetics at Stanford University
English, Slovak
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Github Skills (82)
blast10
taxonomy10
sequencing10
metagenomics10
clustering9
bioinformatics9
dna-sequences9
microbiome8
bioconductor8
command-line-tool7
computational-biology7
protein-sequences7
mobile7
sensitivity-analysis6
minhash5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jlaw9/TRI_Dev
Aug 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:175 pushes in 7 months
durrantmm/bhattlab
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:840 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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