Morteza Saber
Research Scientist at Roche
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolMorteza Saber is a research scientist and principal bioinformatics specialist in Montreal with nine years of hands-on experience applying machine learning, population genomics, and big-data analytics to decipher genomic determinants of bacterial traits, particularly antibiotic resistance. Trained across institutions in Iran, Japan and Canada, including a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from The University of Tokyo, he blends computational rigor with experimental insight. His work focuses on predictive models for resistance in pathogens and evolutionary-genomics approaches that scale to large microbial datasets. Beyond typical bioinformatics workflows, he leverages population-genomic frameworks to reveal subtle, non-obvious allele patterns that drive phenotypic variation. Colleagues know him for turning complex genomic signals into actionable predictions that inform surveillance and therapeutic strategies.
9 years of coding experience
PhD student, Molecular Genetics, PhD student, Molecular Genetics at Tarbiat Modares UniversityUniversity of TokyoBachelor of Science (BSc), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of Isfahan
French, Persian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (42)
gwas9
differential-expression9
bacteria9
rna-seq9
bcftools8
reimplementation8
transcriptomics8
bioinformatics8
reproducible-science7
csv6
boost6
treeview6
machine-learning6
python6
multithreading6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Morteza-M-Saber/BacGWASim
Nov 2018 - May 2021
A Simulator for Bacterial Machine learning and Genome-Wide Association Studies
Contributions:7 releases, 90 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 6 months
machine-learning
Morteza-M-Saber/personal_web
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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