I'm a bioinformatician at UCL, working on omics pipeline development in evolution and ecology. I build reproducible, FAIR data pipelines — mostly Nextflow / nf-core workflows for sequencing and phenotypic data — and care a lot about making science others can re-run.
- 🧬 Background in phylogenetics, molecular evolution, and alternative splicing regulation
- 🔬 Hands-on with RNA-Seq, proteomics, genomic and phenotypic data across evo-devo & ecology
- 🛠️ Nextflow / nf-core pipelines · Unix · R · Perl · Python
- 🐝 PhD at the CRG (Barcelona); postdoc at UCL on wasp caste evolution; pipeline work at Seqera Labs
I lead Eco-Flow — a BBSRC-funded community developing open-source Nextflow pipelines for agri-ecology, working to close "the omics gap in ecology" with reproducible, accessible and scalable workflows (built to nf-core standards, tested with nf-test).
Pipelines (a growing collection):
genomeqc— assess & compare the quality of multiple genomes and their annotationssynteny— synteny analysis across genomesexcon— quantify gene-family expansion & contraction- DNA metabarcoding —
dietary_amplicons,pollen-metabarcoding,nanoporemetabarcoding
Training & community: I organise nf-core hackathons, deliver multi-day Nextflow and bioinformatics workshops, and am an active member of the nf-core community and UCL's Advanced Research Computing (ARC) Centre.
- 🌐 Website: eco-flow.github.io
- 💻 Pipelines & code: github.com/eco-flow
- 💷 Funding: BBSRC BB/X018768/1 (£612k, 2023–2027)
- CV: chriswyatt1.github.io/cv — full publication list included, built from LaTeX via GitHub Actions
- ORCID: 0000-0001-8033-2213
- ResearchGate: Christopher Wyatt
- LinkedIn: christopher-wyatt
- Email: cw13722@gmail.com