Timothy Webster
Assistant Professor at University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolTimothy Webster is an organismal biologist and assistant professor at the University of Utah with a decade of experience using genomic approaches to unravel the processes driving diversity in humans, nonhuman primates, and reptile models. Trained at Yale and Cambridge, he blends biological anthropology with evolutionary and population genomics to study speciation, diversification, and ecological and behavioral variation. His work spans field-based projects (including chimpanzee habituation and biodiversity surveys) to computational genomics, reflecting rare fluency in both wet‑lab/field logistics and bioinformatic analysis. At ASU and Yale he developed and taught courses linking molecular methods to evolutionary theory, mentoring students across disciplines. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines deep academic research with practical specimen and data stewardship, often leveraging reptiles as comparative systems to reveal patterns not obvious from primate-only studies.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Biological Anthropology, Biological Anthropology at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology (Biological/Physical), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Anthropology (Biological/Physical) at Yale UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology and Zoology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Anthropology and Zoology at Miami UniversityKirtland High School
Github Skills (25)
package-management10
next-generation-sequencing10
conda10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
bioconda10
genome9
genomics9
spark-ml7
science7
sphinx7
python7
image-analysis7
slug6
gatk6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thw17/BIO598_Tutorial
Nov 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:41 commits, 40 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
WilsonSayresLab/XYalign
Oct 2016 - Apr 2019
Identifying, understanding, and correcting technical biases on the sex chromosomes in next-generation sequencing data
Contributions:7 releases, 601 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 6 months
next-generationunderstandingsequencing-databiasesnext-generation-sequencing
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.