Curtis Kapsak
Bioinformatics Scientist
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Kapsak is a bioinformatics scientist with nine years of experience building pathogen surveillance capacity at public health labs, currently supporting US and international partners through Theiagen Genomics. He develops, tests, and maintains production-ready bioinformatics workflows for viral and bacterial pathogens and has managed terabytes of Illumina and Nanopore sequence data for outbreak detection and genomic epidemiology. Curtis combines hands-on pipeline engineering (including containerized tools and internal platforms like SneakerNet) with training and capacity-building, routinely teaching laboratorians to analyze their own NGS data. His background at CDC and state public health labs gives him deep domain expertise in enteric and respiratory pathogens, and his master’s research focused on transmissible antibiotic-resistance plasmids, reflecting a longstanding interest in AMR and environmental reservoirs.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at James Madison University
Github Skills (100)
virus10
bioinformatics-workflow10
genome-assembly10
next-generation-sequencing10
singularity10
ncbi10
sequencing10
pathogen10
docker10
bioinformatics10
genome-annotation10
fastq-files9
journal9
genes9
micromamba9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
StaPH-B/CDPHE
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Various pipelines and scripts used by the CO state public health lab
Contributions:105 commits, 12 PRs, 85 pushes in 7 months
pipelineshealthlabpublic-health
kapsakcj/win10-linux-conda-how-to
Mar 2018 - Jun 2024
A tutorial on how to set up a Linux environment on a computer running Windows 10. Followed by how to install and use (bio)conda.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 6 years 3 months
linuxwindows
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