Avril Coghlan
Senior Bioinformatician
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAvril Coghlan is a Senior Bioinformatician with 15 years of experience applying computational and statistical methods to genome analysis, currently leading efforts to improve Vibrio cholerae genomic resources and surveillance tools at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. She has a strong academic foundation with a PhD in Genetics and prior roles designing an MSc in Bioinformatics and advancing gene prediction and comparative genomics. Avril blends hands-on pipeline development with statistical rigor—she authors the Little Books of R and a bioinformatics blog, signalling a commitment to clear teaching and reproducible methods. Her work spans bacterial and parasitic genomics, including drug-prediction pipelines and collaborations that translated computational leads into experimental validation. Based in South Cambridgeshire, she combines deep domain expertise with practical leadership in platform-scale public health genomics.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Statistics at The Open UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Genetics at Trinity College Dublin
Github Skills (20)
r-package10
bioinformatics10
bayesian-statistics8
genome4
gene-expression3
genomics3
rna-seq3
power-analysis3
ruby2
simulation-framework2
experimental-design2
r2
python2
simulation2
lua2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
avrilcoghlan/cholerabook
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 643 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
avrilcoghlan/vibriowatch
Feb 2023 - Oct 2025
Contributions:342 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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