Michael Weigand
Bioinformatician
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Weigand is a bioinformatician with nine years of experience applying comparative genomics, metagenomics, and experimental evolution to understand the ecology and evolution of bacterial pathogens. At the CDC he leads whole-genome analyses of Bordetella pertussis with a focus on genomic rearrangements, building on prior postdoctoral work developing metagenomic and comparative-genomics pipelines at Georgia Tech. His PhD research on hypermutability and adaptation in Pseudomonas produced multiple peer-reviewed publications, including a first-author PNAS paper, and he routinely combines wet-lab bacterial genetics with computational mutation and phylogenetic analyses. Based in Atlanta, he mentors students and manages multi-institution collaborations, translating method development into public-health surveillance tools. An appetite for connecting environmental microbiology to pathogen detection—e.g., source-tracking signatures in fecal indicator bacteria—underscores his translational approach to genomic epidemiology.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Biochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Biology, BS, Biochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Biology at Saint Vincent CollegePhD, Genetics, Microbiology, PhD, Genetics, Microbiology at Michigan State University
Github Skills (38)
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
protocols10
genomics10
ncbi9
rna-seq8
genbank8
genetics8
bacteria7
pipeline6
metadata6
nextflow6
phylogeny5
singularity5
python5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mikeyweigand/Pertussis_n257
Oct 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 6 comments in 3 years 10 months
CDCgov/bpertussis-ciwgs
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Culture-Independent Whole Genome Sequencing (CIWGS) Read Filter Pipeline 🧪🧬🖥️
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year
bioinformaticsgenomic-surveillancenextflowpertussiswgs
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