Anita Schürch
Associate Professor
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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SeniorAnita Schürch is an Associate Professor and experienced bioinformatician specializing in pathogen genomics and the genomics of mobile genetic elements driving antibiotic resistance. With nine years in academic and public-health research roles and a longer track record in sequencing and lab management, she leads the bioinformatics team supporting Medical Microbiology at UMC Utrecht. She combines hands-on computational development—contributing to scientific open-source tools hosted mainly on GitLab—with applied genomics in clinical and public health contexts. Anita is passionate about making bioinformatics methods accessible, translating complex pipelines into reproducible workflows used by clinicians and researchers. Her work uniquely bridges sequencing operations, research, and software development, enabling rapid response to antimicrobial resistance questions. Colleagues know her for pragmatic tool-building and a consistent focus on reproducibility and accessibility in pathogen genomics.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (62)
stable10
microbiology10
command-line10
data-wrangling10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
shell10
snakemake9
package-management9
python9
spanish9
conda9
operating-system9
bacteria9
bioconda8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aschuerch/MolecularEpidemiology_AnalysisWGS
Dec 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:21 PRs, 317 pushes, 11 branches in 7 years 2 months
biology-education
aschuerch/bactofidia
Jan 2017 - Mar 2021
bacterial assembly and basic analysis using bioconda and Snakemake
Contributions:390 commits, 6 PRs, 122 pushes in 4 years 2 months
biocondasnakemake
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