Andrea Telatin
Head Of Bioinformatics
Norwich, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrea Telatin is Head of Bioinformatics at the Quadram Institute Bioscience, bringing over a decade of experience designing reproducible, high-throughput pipelines for microbial genomics, metagenomics and phylogenomics. With a PhD in Biotechnology and Biochemistry from the University of Padua, he has led bioinformatics teams in both academic and commercial settings, including founding roles at BMR Genomics where he delivered NGS solutions across human transcriptomics, exome screening and microbiome projects. He manages cloud and Galaxy infrastructures, builds scalable analysis software, and supports institute-wide research programs while championing training and capacity building. An active contributor to the bioconda ecosystem, he automates builds and packaging for widely used bioinformatics tools—bringing production-grade release engineering to scientific software. Known for blending hands-on pipeline development with strategic leadership, he also sustains community engagement through teaching, volunteering and science communication.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biotechnology and Biochemistry at Università degli Studi di PadovaHigh School Math Physics Sciences Italian Latin English, High School Math Physics Sciences Italian Latin English at Liceo Tito Lucrezio CaroFirst Certificate in English English language, First Certificate in English English language at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (10)
bioinformatics10
automation10
bash10
automations10
conda10
package-management10
nim-lang9
testing8
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:292 reviews, 69 commits, 311 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrea primarily contributes to building and maintaining recipes for the bioconda channel. Their work involves creating and modifying `build.sh` scripts, which automate the build process for various bioinformatics tools. They frequently incorporate changes that involve the usage of the nim language, and install necessary dependencies for builds. They also contribute test files, and modify run test scripts to ensure package functionality.
biocondacondabioinformaticspackage-management
telatin/qax
Nov 2020 - May 2022
Qiime2 Artifact eXtractor
Contributions:12 releases, 78 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
qiimeqiime2qiime2-installationmetadatametabarcoding
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