My name is Ryan Chapman, and I am an incoming medical student at University of Nebraska Medical Center! I completed my Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in July of 2023, and my background is in Infectious Diseases.
My past positions include:
- Bioinformatician in the Laboratory of Dr. Michael Wiley at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (June 2022 - June 2023)
- Bioinformatician for PraesensBio LLC (October 2022 - June 2023)
- Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Dr. Paul Davis at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (October 2019 - May 2023)
My past work includes:
- Reference Based and De Novo assembly of viral pathogens
- NGS Analysis Automation with Nextflow
- SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Detection and Characterization
- Viral Phylogenetics
- Library Preparation and Analysis of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing data.
- Transcriptomic analyses (including Bulk and Single-Cell RNA-Seq)
- Identification of genomic repeat regions for potential PCR diagnostics
I have several NGS Assembly Pipelines published that you are free to use! Please let me know if you discover any Issues/Bugs!