Wendell Pereira
Research Assistant Professor at SolusCell
Gainesville, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolWendell Pereira is a Research Assistant Professor and bioinformatician with 11 years of experience applying genomics, single-cell transcriptomics, and epigenomics to unravel plant development and stress responses. He combines a Ph.D. in molecular biology with hands-on software engineering (R/Shiny, Python, Snakemake) to build reproducible pipelines and user-friendly tools—most notably the widely adopted Asc-Seurat single-cell web app. As a mentor and instructor at the University of Florida, he leads independent projects, secures grant funding, and trains graduate students and postdocs. He also co-founded SolusCell to translate single-cell genomics into actionable data services, bridging academic discovery and client-facing solutions. Known for spotting conserved regulatory signals across genomes, he brings a blend of computational rigor and practical deployment experience to agricultural biotechnology.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's in Biological Science, Master's in Biological Science at Universidade Federal de GoiásPh.D. in molecular biology, Bioinformatics, Ph.D. in molecular biology, Bioinformatics at Universidade de Brasília
Portuguese, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (32)
seq10
gene-expression10
dimensionality-reduction9
single-cell-analysis9
bioinformatics9
transcriptomics9
tsne9
clustering9
rna-seq9
genomics8
rna-velocity7
python7
data-visualization6
differential-expression6
seurat6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KirstLab/asc_seurat
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 release, 124 commits, 133 pushes in 11 months
KirstLab/scRNAseq_useful_scripts
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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