Alexie Papanicolaou
Associate Professor In Bioinformatics
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAlexie Papanicolaou is an associate professor in bioinformatics with 13 years of experience building scalable computational solutions for genomics and evolutionary biology, focused on enabling research for non-model species such as cotton bollworm, Heliconius butterflies, fruit flies and eucalyptus. He develops standardized pipelines and databases (e.g., est2assembly, InsectaCentral) and adapts high-performance tools like a parallel Velvet assembler to make transcriptome-first strategies cost-effective for ecological and agricultural problems. Alexie bridges academia, industry and policy as an academic advisor for STEM engagement and has led cross-institutional projects at CSIRO dissecting adaptive potential using population transcriptomics. His work uniquely combines deep evolutionary genetics training (PhD, Max Planck) with practical bioinformatic engineering to turn complex sequencing data into actionable insights for biosecurity, climate adaptation and ecosystem science.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Research, Evolutionary Genetics, M.Sc Research, Evolutionary Genetics at The University of EdinburghPh.D., Bioinformatics, Ph.D., Bioinformatics at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Greek, English, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (173)
lti10
python10
onlyoffice10
core-package10
genomics10
edtech10
backend10
collaboration10
federated10
javascript10
laravel10
file-sharing10
pipeline10
science10
genome10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
genomecuration/JAMp
May 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
genomecuration/justpreprocessmyreads
Oct 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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