Melissa Wilson
Senior Investigator
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelissa Wilson is an evolutionary biologist and Senior Investigator at NHGRI with 11 years of research and faculty experience studying genome evolution, sex chromosome origins, and sex-specific mutation rate variation. She combines large-scale comparative genomics and population genetics analyses with model development and collaborative experimental work to dissect how natural and background selection shape genomes. Her career spans roles from Miller Fellow at UC Berkeley to professor at Arizona State University, reflecting a blend of deep computational skills (Perl, Unix, BlastZ) and hands-on RNAseq and bioinformatics expertise. An experienced science communicator and educator, she also organizes conferences and outreach to bridge research and public understanding—bringing a rare mix of rigorous quantitative training and public-facing scholarship to genomic questions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Experience, Integrative Biology, Postdoctoral Experience, Integrative Biology at University of California, BerkeleyPhD, Integrative Biology: Bioinformatics & Genomics, PhD, Integrative Biology: Bioinformatics & Genomics at Penn State UniversityLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenB.Math, Medical Mathematics, B.Math, Medical Mathematics at Creighton University
Spanish
Github Skills (16)
stable9
bioinformatics8
next-generation-sequencing7
automation7
shell7
unix6
fasta5
pipeline2
infer1
ancestry1
rna-seq1
python1
genomics1
filtering1
inference1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SexChrLab/BioinformaticsIntroduction
Dec 2018 - Jul 2020
Tutorials to get started in bioinformatics
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
bioinformatics
SexChrLab/VariantCalling
Mar 2020 - Aug 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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