Nick Cauldron
Postdoctoral Researcher at Brown University
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNick Cauldron is a postdoctoral researcher and computational evolutionary genomicist with eight years of experience dissecting the evolutionary and demographic histories of fungal and oomycete plant pathogens. He combines hands-on genome assembly and population-scale genomic analysis with interdisciplinary collaborations across the US, New Zealand, and the Czech Republic, and has three first/co-first author publications in APS journals with several more thesis chapters in submission. Nick independently secured two years of funding via a USDA NIFA predoctoral fellowship, demonstrating grant-writing and project leadership alongside technical skills in Python, Bash, R, and bioinformatics pipelines. Now at Brown after completing a PhD in Plant Pathology at Oregon State, he applies rigorous computational methods to real-world plant disease emergence questions. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex genomic data into reproducible analyses and publications, and his background in sustainability and community roles hints at a broader commitment to collaborative, impact-driven science. He describes his approach as pragmatic and inventive—"life is a workaround"—reflecting a knack for practical problem-solving in research.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor of Science (H.B.S.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Honors Bachelor of Science (H.B.S.), Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Oregon State University Honors CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Plant Pathology/Phytopathology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Plant Pathology/Phytopathology at Oregon State UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Century High School
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Github Skills (155)
genome-assembly10
genomics10
gff10
spark-ml10
ncbi10
upsetr10
venn-diagram10
genome10
r-package10
tree-structure10
sequencing10
bpp10
gwas10
bioinformatics10
treeview10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Neato-Nick/NSF-GRFP
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
Neato-Nick/mllR
Mar 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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