Alexandra Van Rensburg
Research Associate
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandra Van Rensburg is a Research Associate at University College London with a decade of experience in genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, spanning roles from diagnostic karyotyping to PhD-level research in evolutionary biology. She specialises in adaptation genomics across environmental gradients, applying WGS, ddRAD, transcriptomics, epigenetics and lipidomics alongside statistical and machine learning approaches to unravel spatial and temporal genomic diversity. Her work bridges academic and applied settings—supporting forestry breeding programs early in her career and now driving integrative population-genomic studies at UCL. Colleagues value her for collaborative knowledge-sharing and for translating complex genomic datasets into actionable biological insights. A less obvious strength is her comfort moving between human/medical genetics diagnostics and ecological genomics, enabling cross-disciplinary perspectives on genomic adaptation.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Human/Medical Genetics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Human/Medical Genetics at Univeristy of PretoriaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Univerisity of ZurichUniversity of Pretoria
Afrikaans, English
Github Skills (7)
adaptation10
pytorch7
deep-learning7
python4
nmf3
dna-sequences3
genomics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexjvr1/Manuscripts
Aug 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:754 commits, 39 pushes, 8 comments in 6 years 4 months
alexjvr1/AriciaAgestis_PopGenMS
Feb 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:363 pushes, 1 branch, 45 comments in 3 years 7 months
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