Timothy Thurman
Senior Scientist I at Serif Biomedicines
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTimothy Thurman is a computational biologist and Senior Scientist who brings a decade of experience turning large-scale -omic data into robust, reproducible insights. He specializes in R, Python, Unix shells, and Stan, and builds production-ready pipelines with Snakemake and Nextflow to process diverse genomic assays from WGS to single-cell RNA-seq. His background in population genomics and Bayesian statistics informs rigorous experimental design, GWAS, and phylogenetic analyses, while his role leading SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance demonstrates capacity to manage high-throughput, high-impact projects. Timothy favors scientific software engineering principles—readable, performant code and thorough documentation—to make analyses reusable across collaborators. Based in Boston, he pairs a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with postdoctoral training to bridge academic depth and industry delivery at Serif Biomedicines. Notably, he has scaled pipelines that processed and curated over 10,000 viral genomes, highlighting both technical skill and operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of MontanaBachelor of Arts - BA, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Vanderbilt UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at McGill University
Github Skills (21)
pypi8
bioinformatics8
r-package7
bioconda6
python6
sequencing5
r5
mcmc4
data-visualization4
stan4
bayesian-inference4
bayesian-data-analysis3
bayesian-statistics3
recurrent-neural-networks3
minhash2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ByrumLab/proteoDA
Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:450 commits, 71 PRs, 35 pushes in 11 months
tjthurman/BAHZ
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:211 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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