Rob Harbert
Senior Field Bioinformatics Scientist
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Harbert is a Senior Field Bioinformatics Scientist with nine years of experience building and delivering bioinformatics solutions across academia, biotech, and commercial sequencing platforms. He combines deep expertise in R and Python, statistical modeling, and DNA/RNA sequencing analysis to provide hands-on support and develop software services for complex genomics workflows. At Oxford Nanopore he progressed from field application scientist to senior field role, translating cutting-edge nanopore capabilities into practical, deployable analyses for customers. His background spans research-intensive roles at the American Museum of Natural History and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from Cornell, giving him a strong foundation in evolutionary and ecological genomics as well as applied industry problems. Colleagues rely on him for bridging research rigor with product-driven bioinformatics, and he also works independently as a bioinformatics scientist, indicating a taste for autonomous problem-solving. Based in Roanoke, Virginia, he is skilled at turning noisy sequencing data into actionable insights that accelerate platform adoption and discovery.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology at Roanoke CollegePh.D., Plant Biology, Ph.D., Plant Biology at Cornell University
Github Skills (42)
biodiversity8
meta-analysis8
ecology8
missing-data8
traits8
r-package7
modeling-tool7
bioinformatics7
csv-parser7
sequencing7
sbml7
csv6
sequence6
modeling6
agent-based-modeling6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
developing-bioinformatics/bioinformatics
Jan 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 18 commits, 51 pushes in 1 year 1 month
rsh249/applied_bioinformatics
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
The repository for the Spring 2019 iteration of Applied Bioinformatics. This semester will focus on teaching bioinformatics to undergrads using Nanopore sequencing to drive course projects.
Contributions:127 commits, 2 PRs, 113 pushes in 1 year
appliedteachingcourse-projectsnanoporesequencing
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