Shawn Polson
Co-Director, Center For Bioinformatics And Computational Biology
Newark, Delaware, United States
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Top SchoolShawn Polson is a multidisciplinary bioinformatics and microbial ecology leader with over a decade of hands-on experience characterizing microbial and viral communities across marine and terrestrial ecosystems. As Co-Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and long-time director of a university bioinformatics core, he combines field and bench expertise with deep computational skills to support omics workflows, high-performance computing, and data-driven research across multiple colleges and regional partners. His work ranges from coral disease ecology to viral metagenomes from hydrothermal vents and hot springs, reflecting an uncommon blend of oceanography and computational genomics. He also runs shared infrastructure and services—scientific programming, web and database hosting, and an HPC cluster optimized for bioinformatics—which few academic labs manage at this scale. Trained with a PhD in marine biomedicine and a background in computer science, he is adept at translating complex ecological questions into reproducible computational pipelines and institutional resources.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Microbiology, MS, Microbiology at Clemson UniversityBS, Cell and Molecular Biology (major) / Computer Science (minor), BS, Cell and Molecular Biology (major) / Computer Science (minor) at University of South Carolina AikenPh.D., Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science/Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathobiology, Ph.D., Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Science/Molecular and Cellular Biology and Pathobiology at Medical University of South Carolina
French, English
Github Skills (20)
bam6
bioconda5
sequence5
fasta5
sequencing5
seq5
genome5
assembly4
bioinformatics4
java4
throughput4
fastq4
rna-seq4
java-api4
nim-language4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UD-CBCB/RedRep
Dec 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 9 months
GBIRG/scRNAseq_2022
Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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