Gaurav Kandlikar
Junior Scientist at University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGaurav Kandlikar is a plant ecologist and junior scientist based in Minneapolis who blends a lifelong fascination with biodiversity with 11 years of hands-on research experience in phylogenetics, herbarium curation, and plant genomics. At the University of Minnesota he currently applies bioinformatics to transcriptomic and genomic datasets from maize, building on earlier work on speciation and polyploidy in Isoetes at the Smithsonian. Comfortable at the bench and behind the code, he pairs wet-lab experience with computational skills to translate molecular data into evolutionary insight. He has supported large specimen databases and field collections, giving him a practical appreciation for how specimen curation underpins discovery. Guided by the “scientific naturalist” tradition, he aims to inspire ideas, evaluate hypotheses, and design experiments that illuminate plant diversity. As a tinkerer who enjoys both plants and tools, he brings curiosity and methodical rigor to interdisciplinary research.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
taxonomy10
r-package10
ncbi10
gmail10
r9
biology9
stable9
ruby9
knitr8
data-visualisation8
data-wrangling8
evolutionary7
data-visualization7
ecology4
statement4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gauravsk/ranacapa
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
R package for downstream analysis for anacapa eDNA pipeline
Contributions:1 release, 156 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 4 months
rr-package
UCLA-hacky-hours/ucla-hacky-hours.github.io
Oct 2017 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
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