Carmen Sheppard
Clinical Scientist Bioinformatician
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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SeniorCarmen Sheppard is a Clinical Scientist Bioinformatician with eight years’ experience applying genomics to public health and infectious disease surveillance, currently driving client-facing and resource development work at Genpax. She blends HCPC-registered clinical laboratory expertise with practical bioinformatics—scripting in Python, Bash and R—to translate complex whole-genome sequencing data into actionable outbreak intelligence for busy clinical microbiology teams. At Genpax she coordinates pilots, demonstrates the IDEM platform, analyses large genomic datasets and builds reproducible tools and documentation to support surveillance workflows. Comfortable liaising with multidisciplinary stakeholders, she leverages prior UKHSA/PHE experience to balance regulatory rigour and rapid technical innovation in high-stakes infectious disease investigations.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
phylogenetics9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
genome8
protein-structure8
cvs8
minhash8
sequence-alignment8
git-repository7
python7
bacteria6
genome-annotation6
biopython6
genomes6
pathogen5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CarmenSheppard/PneumoKITy
May 2020 - Sep 2022
PneumoKITy - Fast sensitive Pneumococcal Capsular Serotype screening from WGS data
Contributions:1 release, 188 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 4 months
wgssensitivescreening
CarmenSheppard/PneumoCaT
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Pneumococcal Capsular Typing tool for NGS data
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes in 4 months
ngsngs-data
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