Ross Lazarus

Ross Lazarus is an Australian medical academic who lived and worked in Boston for 12 years, Associate Professor in Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Bioinformatics at the Channing Laboratory, returning to take up his current position as Head of Computational Biology at the BakerIDI in Melbourne, in 2011. While based at HMS, he joined the Galaxy Team and now helps take care of some tool wrappers and is developing a comprehensive toolkit for digital differential expression, exposing edgeR/DESeq, miRDeep2 and GSEA in a convenient way starting with aligned bam files and an interval file specifying contigs for read counts. For those times when you need a few lines of R or python quickly wrapped into a new Galaxy tool for your local users, you might enjoy a Galaxy tool he recently published that generates new Galaxy tools from scripts. In preparing for these roles, he has at various times worked as a public health and family physician, public health informatician, NIH/NSF funded researcher, bioinformatician, genetic epidemiologist and computer wonk.