Tim Monko
Community Manager at napari
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Monko is a postdoctoral researcher and community-focused software contributor who bridges developmental neuroscience and open-source bioimage analysis. As a core team member and Community Manager for napari, he builds and promotes tools like napari-ndev to make high-quality, reproducible microscopy workflows accessible to biologists with no coding background. With seven years of experience spanning a PhD in Neuroscience, teaching, and bench research at the University of Minnesota, he combines hands-on microscopy expertise with practical Python-driven data pipelines. Based in Minneapolis, he’s passionate about democratizing image analysis and actively cultivates an inclusive plugin ecosystem that helps labs scale image processing from acquisition to publication.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Neuroscience; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Neuroscience; Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Lebanon Valley CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (61)
visualization10
viewer10
python10
image-processing10
image10
image-viewer10
numpy10
scientific-visualization10
api9
api-documentation9
microscopy9
forge8
widgets8
scaffolding7
graphical-user-interface7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TimMonko/napari-ndev
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
A collection of widgets intended to serve any person seeking to process microscopy images from start to finish, with no coding necessary. napari-ndev was designed to address the gap between the napari viewer and batch python scripting.
Contributions:56 releases, 30 commits, 229 PRs in 1 month
TimMonko/BastianLab
Jan 2022 - Mar 2024
Repository for Thomas Bastian Lab at University of Minnesota
Contributions:3 PRs, 163 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
university-of-minnesotapythonlabconda
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