Aurelie Kapusta
Data Scientist III R&D Bioinformatics Support
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAurelie Kapusta is a seasoned bioinformatics and genomics expert with 12+ years of applied data science experience and over 15 years studying genome dynamics and evolution. Currently a Data Scientist III in R&D Bioinformatics Support at bioMérieux, she has designed and validated pipelines for microorganism detection and infectious disease diagnostics at Illumina and IDbyDNA. Skilled in Python, R, Bash, Perl and k-mer–based approaches, she bridges fundamental evolutionary questions with practical surveillance, metagenomics, and panel V&V workflows. Her research background includes high-impact publications on mobile DNA and genome size evolution, and she uniquely combines deep evolutionary insight with hands-on pipeline engineering for clinical and research applications.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Biology - genetic, Master, Biology - genetic at Ecole normale supérieurePhD, Genetics, PhD, Genetics at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Master 2, Genomics, Master 2, Genomics at Institut Pasteur, ParisLycée Blaise Pascal, Orsay
English, French
Github Skills (35)
extraction10
pathogen8
python8
infectious-diseases8
ncbi8
next-generation-sequencing7
bioinformatics7
genbank7
sequencing7
genome-analysis7
genome7
dna-sequences7
genomics7
genomes6
minhash6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
4ureliek/TEanalysis
Mar 2015 - Sep 2019
Contributions:81 commits, 73 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
4ureliek/ReannTE
Aug 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 6 months
consensuselementscurationbioinformaticsconsensus-sequences
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