Nick Negretti
Research Instructor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Negretti is a research instructor and biological scientist with eight years of experience probing developmental biology using live imaging and single-cell sequencing, now based at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His work spans fundamental lab research on lung injury and development to prior molecular pathogenesis studies of Campylobacter jejuni, combining animal and cell culture models to connect signaling pathways to host interactions. Comfortable at the bench and in code, he has contributed to the widely used Biopython project by improving parsing robustness and code quality, reflecting an attention to reproducible data workflows. He is also an experienced educator who values inclusive communication, bringing a PhD in Molecular Biosciences and a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to complex biological problems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biosciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University Graduate SchoolB.S. Microbiology, B.S. Microbiology at Washington State University
Github Skills (7)
bioinformatics10
biopython10
sequence-alignment10
python10
software-quality9
debug9
excel-dna8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
biopython/biopython
Jul 2018 - Sep 2019
Official git repository for Biopython (originally converted from CVS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 12 PRs, 48 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to fixing multiline assert statements and addressing error messages within the codebase. These changes focused on the `Bio` and `GenBank` folders, indicating a focus on core functionality and parsing within the Biopython library. The commits also included fixing flake8 errors and addressing specific issues (#1515), suggesting a focus on code quality and maintainability. This work appears to be centered on improving the robustness of the library's parsing capabilities.
git-repositoryphylogeneticspythondnagenomics
SucreLab/AlveolEye
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 13 PRs in 9 months
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