Derek Rothenheber
Metagenomics Scientist at SecureBio
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Rothenheber is a metagenomics scientist with a decade of hands-on experience designing and deploying NGS assays across diagnostics, surveillance, and plant and animal research. He has led NGS platform build-outs, managed multidisciplinary teams, and translated proof-of-concept methods—such as scalable circular RNA production and plant trait delivery—into operational workflows that preserved data provenance. Derek combines wet-lab expertise in duplex sequencing, methylation and RNA-seq with custom bioinformatics pipelines to drive viral discovery, epigenetic analysis, and variant detection. Based in Cambridge, MA, he’s currently focused on molecular diagnostics and surveillance while bringing a microbial-ecology perspective that informs creative assay development and sample enrichment strategies.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Microbiology, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Microbiology, General at University of MaineMaster of Science (M.S.), Applied Environmental Microbiology, Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Environmental Microbiology at University of New Hampshire
Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
bash6
unix6
python6
sequencing5
taps5
nextflow4
pipeline4
nf-core3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
drothen15/fungal_metagenomics
Aug 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
drothen15/whitenose-project
Mar 2019 - Jan 2026
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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