Surgery Bioinformatics Analyst

Adam Herman, PhD
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Expertise

  • Single-cell
  • Spatial-omics
  • Population/Evolutionary Genomics
    • Variant calling, genetic diversity, admixture, population demography, phylogenetics
  • Next-generation sequence data across technologies and datatypes
    • DNA: whole genome, SBG/GBS, Amplicon
    • RNA (cDNA): expression and variant calling
    • Epigenetic: methylation array (mouse and human), ATAC-seq
  • High performance computing and programming
    • Slurm, PBS
    • BASH, R, Python
  • Collaboration
    • Google Drive, Box, Github, Overleaf
    • DRUM, Dryad, NCBI

Education

  • Postdoc, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota
  • PhD, Biology, McGill University
  • BS, Botany, Northern Michigan University

 

Bio

At MSI

Adam started as the Department of Surgery Bioinformatics Analyst in June 2022. He previously worked as a core RIS Informatics Analyst starting in 2018. While his current projects focus primarily on human, mouse, and non-human primates, his previous collaborations spanned the tree of life (and viruses!). In addition to broad 'omics experience detailed below, he has worked on analysis pipeline development, genomics database maintenance, as well as basic image analysis in Fiji.

Previous

While working on a Botany degree at Northern Michigan University, Adam's interest in genetics began during a summer internship in Arabidopsis developmental genetics at the Carnegie Institute of Plant Biology. This led to a PhD in the genetics of plant mating system evolution at McGill University followed by a post-doc at University of Minnesota working on population genomics in plants (Asteraceae sunflowers) and animals (Astyanax cave and surface fish).