Chela James
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolChela James is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with 11 years of experience turning complex genomic data into actionable insights for academic and translational research. Based in Milan, she has progressed from bench-focused postdoctoral roles to leading bioinformatics workstreams at Human Technopole, combining deep molecular biology expertise with pragmatic pipeline engineering and data science. Her background includes identifying disease-causing mutations via homozygosity mapping and designing NGS data strategies, giving her a rare blend of hands-on lab experience and production-grade analysis. Known for building tools that streamline sequence data processing, she excels at translating biological questions into reproducible computational solutions. Colleagues value her for pragmatic problem-solving and mentoring, having trained students and new recruits in both wet-lab and bioinformatics techniques.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Molecular Neurobiology, PhD, Molecular Neurobiology at Leeds University, LeedsDallam School
English, Spanish, nyanja, Italian
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Github Skills (58)
git10
reproducible-research10
reproducible-science10
variants10
next-generation-sequencing10
github10
singularity10
conda10
nextflow10
immunology10
sequencing10
pipeline10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
chelauk/covidhackathon
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Covid Hackathon expression pipeline
Contributions:1 release, 52 commits, 8 PRs in 20 days
pythonpipeline
chelauk/nf-core-demultiplex-methylation
Sep 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 178 pushes, 19 branches in 3 years 10 months
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