Michael Alonge
Software Engineer & Computational Biologist
Building scalable software for managing and interpreting genomic data.
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Integrating a print-friendly and web-friendly resume into an Astro website
I built a modern resume system that combines Astro's static site generation with the JSON Resume standard and print-optimized CSS to create both an SEO-friendly web presence and recruiter-ready PDF downloads.
Selected Publications
The complete sequence of a human genome
Science, 2022
I was a member of the Telomere-to-Telomere Consortium, contributing to the first every complete sequence of a human genome. I contributed by correcting small and structural misassemblies in the draft assembly.
The genetic and epigenetic landscape of the Arabidopsis centromeres
Science, 2021
We resolved and characterized all five Arabidopsis thaliana centromeres for the first time. I led the genome assembly including the centromere sequences.
Major Impacts of Widespread Structural Variation on Gene Expression and Crop Improvement in Tomato
Cell, 2020
We made a catalog of structural variants in tomato and explored several examples of their impact on traits. I led the catalog creation and introgression analysis.
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