Michael Gruenstaeudl
Assistant Professor at Fort Hays State University
Hays, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Gruenstaeudl is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Fort Hays State University with 11 years of research and teaching experience focused on genetics, bioinformatics, and plant biology. He leads funded research programs (NIH, K-INBRE, DFG) investigating automated data quality assessment, organelle genome analysis, and plastid phylogenomics. Trained with a PhD from UT Austin and a habilitation from Freie Universität Berlin, he combines deep evolutionary and computational expertise developed through postdoctoral roles in Berlin and Ohio State. As an educator he designs modern, learner-centered courses for undergraduate and graduate students that bridge wet-lab concepts and computational workflows. He is notable for integrating large-scale genomic data curation into practical teaching and research pipelines, helping students gain hands-on experience with reproducible bioinformatics. Based in Hays, Kansas, he balances international research collaborations with a commitment to building regional research capacity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Botany/Plant Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Botany/Plant Biology at The University of Texas at AustinHabilitation, Botany & Bioinformatics, Habilitation, Botany & Bioinformatics at Freie Universität Berlin
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Github Skills (31)
coverage7
ncbi7
treeview7
phylogenetic-trees7
unit-test6
pypi6
nose6
diagram6
pytest6
python6
unit-testing6
tree-structure6
assembly6
r6
phylogenetics5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
michaelgruenstaeudl/PlastomeBurstAndAlign
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
A Python tool to extract and align genes, introns, and intergenic spacers across hundreds of plastid genomes using associative arrays
Contributions:2 releases, 28 reviews, 16 PRs in 2 years 2 months
michaelgruenstaeudl/airpg
Nov 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 70 commits, 67 pushes in 10 months
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