Robert Literman
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Literman is a postdoctoral researcher and hybrid wet-lab/computational biologist with eight years of experience building phylogenomics software and running hands-on molecular and animal work. He develops user-friendly R and Python tools to extract evolutionary histories directly from raw, unassembled NGS data and practices open science through active GitHub collaboration. Trained with a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a BS in Biochemistry, he bridges experimental design and scalable computational pipelines, making legacy lab techniques interoperable with modern bioinformatics. Currently an ORISE fellow collaborating with FDA CFSAN researchers in Warwick, RI, he is motivated to pivot his academic toolkit into applied research or industry roles where reproducibility and practical deployment matter. An understated strength is his knack for adapting “old” tools to novel problems, turning messy data into robust, usable analyses.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry at SUNY Geneseo
Github Skills (18)
token-list9
anchor9
to-do9
genome9
sequencing9
solana9
genomics9
metaplex8
assembly8
bioinformatics8
uri6
python4
stable4
shell4
cli3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BobLiterman/Rboretum
Nov 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:9 PRs, 839 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 7 months
CFSAN-Biostatistics/CSP2
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
A Nextflow pipeline for fast and accurate SNP distance estimation from WGS read data or genome assemblies
Contributions:16 releases, 2 reviews, 16 PRs in 1 year 9 months
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