André Soares
Staff Scientist at University of Duisburg-Essen
Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolAndré Soares is a Staff Scientist with nine years of experience applying molecular biology and advanced bioinformatics to microbiome research, from Sanger sequencing to Nanopore metagenomics. With a PhD from Aberystwyth and roles across UK, Sweden, and Germany, he now develops Illumina- and Nanopore-based metagenomic workflows at the Probst Lab, combining wet-lab innovation with high-end computational analysis. He is fluent in R-based data visualization and builds reproducible pipelines to extract ecological insights from complex environmental samples, from marine sponges to groundwater aquifers. Comfortable bridging lab and code, he brings a pragmatic curiosity—often repurposing classical techniques alongside cutting-edge sequencing—to tackle evolving questions in microbial ecology.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Msc., Molecular and Microbial Biology, Msc., Molecular and Microbial Biology at Universidade do Algarve
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (110)
taxonomy10
genomes10
microbiome10
bioconductor10
genome-assembly10
bacteria10
next-generation-sequencing10
nomenclature10
upsetr10
sequencing10
metagenomics10
population-genetics10
illumina10
comparative-genomics10
chimera9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
GeoMicroSoares/mads_scripts
Nov 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
GeoMicroSoares/GeoMicroSoares
Aug 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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