Rauf Salamzade
Postdoctoral Scholar In Relman Lab at Stanford University
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRauf Salamzade is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford’s Relman Lab with eight years of experience at the intersection of microbial genomics and computational biology. He holds a PhD in Microbiology from UW–Madison and a BS in Bioinformatics with a CS minor from UC Santa Cruz, and has worked in academic and industry labs including the Broad Institute, Berkeley Lab, and Bayer Crop Science. Rauf develops and applies bioinformatics tools to study microbial evolution and ecology, bringing practical software engineering experience to complex genomics datasets. His background spans both hands-on wet-lab collaboration and scalable computational analysis, enabling translational insights into bacterial population dynamics. Based in San Francisco, he combines rigorous academic training with a track record of contributing to multidisciplinary teams that bridge research and applied bioinformatics.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Microbiology at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science - BS, Bioinformatics with minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioinformatics with minor in Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (53)
biology10
nmf10
package-management10
variants10
conda10
ncbi10
microbiome10
evolution10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
computational-biology10
phylogeny10
comparative-genomics10
bioconda10
metagenomics10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raufs/lsaBGC
Jul 2022 - May 2024
lsaBGC - Lineage Specific Analysis of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters
Contributions:41 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 9 months
biosynthetic-gene-clusterslineageclustersgenomicsbioinformatics
Kalan-Lab/lsaBGC
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
lsaBGC - Lineage Specific Analysis of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters
Contributions:17 releases, 1167 commits, 46 PRs in 1 year 11 months
biosynthetic-gene-clustersphylogenylineageclustersbiology
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