Patrick Mckenzie
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Mckenzie is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard OEB specializing in the genomics of gene flow and speciation in flowering plants, with empirical work on Monarda, Phlox, and Pedicularis. He combines phylogenomics, bioinformatics, and methods development with demographic modeling to address systematics and speciation questions. Trained at Columbia (PhD) and the University of Tennessee (BS in EEB and Mathematics), he brings a strong quantitative foundation to evolutionary biology. Recently he has scaled natural history by integrating community-science big data and machine learning to map evolutionary patterns at landscape-to-continental scales. With a decade of research experience spanning field, lab, and computational work, he bridges classical systematics and modern genomics to tackle how species diverge and exchange genes.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude at University of Tennessee-KnoxvilleDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Evolutionary Biology at Columbia University in the City of New YorkSearcy High School
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Github Skills (21)
phylogeny10
distributions9
tree9
python8
genetic8
migration8
forge8
bioinformatics8
simulation8
scenarios8
visualization6
matplotlib6
invariants5
conda-forge4
conda4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pmckenz1/birdclips
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:5218 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
pmckenz1/simcat
May 2019 - Mar 2025
invariants and machine learning
Contributions:217 pushes in 5 years 11 months
invariantsneural-networksmachine-learningdata-science
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