Tim Fallon
Senior Scientist at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Fallon is a senior scientist and PhD biochemist with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience marrying wet-lab discovery and computational biology to tackle genomics, enzymology, and metabolism in both biomedical and bioeconomic contexts. He translated academic research into commercial diagnostics and led postdoctoral work at Scripps that combined lab automation, functional genomics, and infrastructure development—culminating in a Science 2024 paper that reported the largest known protein in biology. Tim has deep expertise in decoding specialized metabolic pathways (from firefly genomics at MIT to marine and cyanobacterial toxins at SIO), and contributes to community standards like the LabOP protocol to make bench workflows machine-readable. Now at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, he applies bioinformatics engineering to move complex biological insights toward productizable solutions, blending practical lab experience with software-forward reproducibility.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Biochemisty and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Biochemisty and Molecular Biology at Rollins CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (183)
synthetic-biology10
seq10
genomics10
gff10
reproducible-science10
file-manipulation10
singularity10
rna-seq10
fasta10
genome10
meta-analysis10
genbank10
reproducible-research10
assembly10
manipulation10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
photocyte/repeatModeler2_nf
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:59 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
photocyte/general_scripts
Jun 2018 - Jul 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
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