Idalia Barrera
Senior Research Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolIdalia Barrera is a Senior Research Scientist and multi-omics bioinformatician with 11 years of experience building scalable pipelines for large-scale genomics and transcriptomics analyses, now applying that expertise at Thermo Fisher Scientific. She combines deep hands-on skills in Python, R and Bash with HPC and reproducible workflow design to tackle variant calling, genome assembly/annotation, and differential expression across fungal plant pathogens and crop systems. Her academic work spans a PhD demonstrating genomic introgression in maize landraces and postdoctoral leadership at the Max Planck Institute where she integrated Illumina and PacBio data for population genomics and phylogenomics. Comfortable bridging field work, greenhouse experiments and computational analysis, she’s as adept managing teams and experiments as she is developing Bayesian and clustering-based analytical approaches. A fluent science communicator with a background in lab management and outreach, she brings an unusual blend of hands-on agricultural field experience and advanced computational genomics.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
Spanish, English, Portuguese, GermanGithub contributions (5)
yetzehev/Crop-Wild-Relatives-Gto
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
yetzehev/TareasBioinfInvRepro2016-II
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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