Michael聽Thon
Professor at Universidad de Salamanca
Arapiles, Castile and Le贸n, Spain
Summary
馃懁
Senior馃帗
Top SchoolMichael Thon is a professor and bioinformatics scientist with 11+ years of experience focused on agricultural biotechnology, comparative genomics, and the genomics of plant pathogens. He combines deep domain expertise from a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology with hands-on computational skills in Perl, Python, Objective-C, and Java developed across academic appointments in Spain and the U.S. His career spans postdoctoral genomics work to faculty and independent research roles at institutions including Texas A&M and Universidad de Salamanca, where he leads bioinformatics initiatives for crop and pathogen research. Known for bridging wet-lab questions and computational solutions, he brings practical data-mining approaches to real-world agricultural problems and a track record of long-term collaborative research in Iberian agricultural centers.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Plant Pathology, Ph.D., Plant Pathology at Penn State UniversityMS, Botany, MS, Botany at Eastern Illinois University
Spanish, English
Stackoverflow
1,163reputation
61kreached
8answers
29questions
Github Skills (38)
meta-analysis9
population-genetics8
comparative-genomics8
genome-analysis8
taxonomy7
bioinformatics7
interpretation7
genome7
genomics7
python-bindings6
macos6
storyboard6
xcode6
drawrect6
phylogenetics6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mthon/mirlo
Apr 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 10 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
mthon/mikes-tools
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 commit, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe鈥檝e analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.