Eaton Lab
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDeren Eaton is an Associate Professor and computational biologist with nine years of experience leading a genomics-focused research lab that builds production-grade pipelines and widely used open-source Python tools for phylogenetics and comparative genomics. He designs and scales WGS, RNA-seq, and variant-calling workflows on HPC clusters, and combines classical statistical approaches with machine learning—including neural networks for inferring admixture on phylogenies. Deren has managed over $3.5M in research funding and directed multi-institutional projects, translating wet-lab questions into reproducible, production-ready analyses. His software has been adopted broadly across the scientific community, driving thousands of citations and enabling many labs to handle messy, large-scale datasets. He also trains the next generation of computational biologists, teaching advanced genomics, Python, and reproducible research practices at Columbia. Based in New York, he’s actively seeking opportunities to apply his blend of genomics, engineering, and leadership to biotech and academic research challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (71)
package-management10
python10
seq10
genomics10
phylogeny10
bioconda10
conda10
assembly10
visualization10
matplotlib10
tree10
bioinformatics10
rad10
conda-forge9
simulation9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
eaton-lab/waiting-distances
Aug 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:108 pushes in 2 years 8 months
genomics-course/11-assembly
Feb 2019 - Feb 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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