Tim Fallon
Senior Scientist at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Fallon is a senior scientist and PhD biochemist with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience marrying wet-lab discovery and computational biology to tackle genomics, enzymology, and metabolism in both biomedical and bioeconomic contexts. He translated academic research into commercial diagnostics and led postdoctoral work at Scripps that combined lab automation, functional genomics, and infrastructure development—culminating in a Science 2024 paper that reported the largest known protein in biology. Tim has deep expertise in decoding specialized metabolic pathways (from firefly genomics at MIT to marine and cyanobacterial toxins at SIO), and contributes to community standards like the LabOP protocol to make bench workflows machine-readable. Now at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, he applies bioinformatics engineering to move complex biological insights toward productizable solutions, blending practical lab experience with software-forward reproducibility.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Biochemisty and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Biochemisty and Molecular Biology at Rollins CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (141)
synthetic-biology10
genomics10
gff10
file-manipulation10
ncbi10
golang10
rna-seq10
fasta10
genbank10
sequencing10
visualization10
fastq10
bioinformatics10
dna-sequences10
sequence10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
photocyte/PPYR_OGS
Apr 2018 - May 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 132 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
photocyte/doSameSpeciesLiftOver_nextflow
Aug 2019 - Nov 2019
A NextFlow pipeline to lift over GFF3 files using the UCSC liftover tools
Contributions:42 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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