Steve Eichten
Sr. Scientist, Bioinformatics
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Eichten is a Sr. Scientist in Bioinformatics with 12 years of experience applying genomics, epigenomics, and scalable NGS analysis pipelines to problems in plant biology and agricultural biotech. He holds a Ph.D. in Plant Biological Sciences and has transitioned academic insights—published research and funded projects investigating transposable elements and population epigenomics—into industry roles at Inari and General Mills. Steve is skilled at building reproducible, production-ready bioinformatics workflows that bridge molecular lab techniques and large-scale computational analysis. His background includes independent fellowships and course organization, demonstrating an ability to both lead research and teach complex genomics topics. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a pragmatic blend of wet-lab understanding and software-oriented pipeline engineering to drive translational outcomes in crop and food science.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin CitiesB.S., Biology, B.S., Biology at Augsburg University
Github Skills (8)
upsetr6
intermediate4
lex4
venn-diagram3
annotate3
visualization2
python2
data-visualization1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
steichten/scripts
Jun 2014 - Sep 2017
Contributions:92 commits, 24 pushes in 3 years 3 months
steichten/clonal_brachypodium
Oct 2016 - May 2021
Contributions:107 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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