Francisco Lobo
Professor Adjunto at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Top SchoolFrancisco Lobo is a bioinformatician and data scientist with over a decade of experience applying computational methods to omics data, currently serving as Professor Adjunto at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and has led research and applied projects in genomics, reverse vaccinology, and computational biology from Embrapa to international collaborations such as the University of Bielefeld. Francisco combines academic leadership with hands-on tool development to extract statistically robust, biologically meaningful insights from complex datasets and metadata. His background spans bench-informed consulting and long-term institutional research, giving him a pragmatic perspective on translating computational findings into real-world biological questions. Based in Minas Gerais, Brazil, he is known for bridging rigorous statistical analysis with domain expertise in immunology and genomics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
comparative-genomics10
bioperl9
phylogeny8
bioinformatics8
perl8
genes7
genomics6
genome4
pipeline2
large-scale2
scale2
spatial-transcriptomics1
visualizations1
r-package1
r1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
franciscolobo/POTION2_bkp
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 day
scalebioinformaticslarge-scalegenesselection
franciscolobo/LocAlignR
Dec 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
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