Mel Melendrez
Instructor Of Biology at Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolMel Melendrez is a computational microbiologist and educator with 11 years of experience bridging wet-lab virology and microbiology with big-data genomics and bioinformatics. Currently an Instructor of Biology in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area, Mel designs curricula that integrate computation and undergraduate research while leading metagenomics and metatranscriptomics projects focused on bioremediation and environmental point-of-care systems. Previously a lead bioinformatician at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Mel has driven pathogen surveillance, viral quasispecies and microbial community dynamics analyses across short- and long-read sequencing platforms. Their work spans infectious disease surveillance, antibiotic resistance dynamics, and the development of bioinformatics pipelines and infrastructure to make genomics actionable for environmental and public health. Holding a PhD in Ecology and Environmental Sciences and a certificate in Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Mel is pursuing further training toward an MPH to deepen epidemiological collaborations. Colleagues describe them as interdisciplinary, hands-on, and focused on functional, reproducible bioinformatics that connects molecular data to system “health.”
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Certificate, Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Drexel UniversityN/A, Comparative Ecology and Conservation, N/A, Comparative Ecology and Conservation at School for International TrainingB.S. and B.A., Biology and Spanish/Latin America Literature, B.S. and B.A., Biology and Spanish/Latin America Literature at Pacific Lutheran UniversityPh.D., Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Ph.D., Ecology and Environmental Sciences at Montana State University-BozemanCertificate, Pre-Medicine, Certificate, Pre-Medicine at Yale UniversityDiploma, Diploma at Maui High School
Spanish, Thai, French
Github Skills (49)
genome8
genomics8
phylogenetics8
bioinformatics8
sequence-alignment7
evolution7
protein-structure6
pipeline6
sequencing6
sampling6
python6
cvs6
bam6
bioconda5
sequence5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mmelendrez/tre_to_csv
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:9 pushes in 15 days
mmelendrez/ngs_mapper-1
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
genomepipelinegenomicsbioinformaticsmapping
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