Bryan Merrill
Bioinformatics Scientist
Monrovia, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBryan Merrill is a bioinformatics scientist with 11 years of experience translating multi-omics data into biological insights. He specializes in integrating public and in-house datasets, building scalable, cloud-based analysis pipelines, and uncovering host-phenotype relationships and gut microbiome dynamics relevant to health and disease. Currently at Seed Health, he advances metagenomics and microbiome analytics to inform product development and therapeutics, with a track record of Nextflow pipelines and cross-disciplinary collaboration across bench and compute teams. His PhD work at Stanford focused on terabase-scale sequencing of the Hadza gut microbiome, illustrating his hands-on approach to large-scale, real-world microbiome research. Earlier at Brigham Young University, he led phage therapy research for American Foulbrood and helped build a phage–bacteria library that underpinned translational tools for ecosystem health. Based in Monrovia, California, he combines rigorous science with a collaborative mindset to deliver publishable, impact-driven results.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.), Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology and Molecular Biology at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (73)
genome-assembly10
next-generation-sequencing10
genome10
sequencing10
illumina10
nmf9
bioconductor9
assembler9
bioinformatics9
comparative-genomics9
population-genetics9
microbiology9
metagenomics9
ncbi8
minhash8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
byuphamerator/phamerator-dev
Aug 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:27 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years
brymerr921/VirSorterParser
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 7 months
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