Joseph Kirangwa
PostDoc at University of Oxford
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Kirangwa is a postdoctoral bioinformatician based in Cologne with nine years’ experience applying genomics, epigenomics and machine learning to decode molecular mechanisms in parasites and other organisms. His work spans hands-on NGS lab techniques and end-to-end computational workflows, from genome assembly and annotation to ML models that predict regions susceptible to epigenetic modification. Trained across institutions in Europe and Africa, he blends wet-lab rigor (DNA/RNA sequencing, LIMS/ELN practice) with advanced comparative genomics and pipeline development. At Oxford he now focuses on epigenetic regulation in human parasitic nematodes, building on a PhD in evolutionary genomics and prior roles at Karolinska and Cologne. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic scientist who bridges experimental and computational worlds, often finding insights in high-throughput noise that others overlook.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Uganda Martyrs' Secondary School NamugongoUniversity of SkövdeMSc, Thesis, MSc, Thesis at Karolinska institutetBiomedical Laboratory Technology, Biological science, Biomedical Laboratory Technology, Biological science at Makerere UniversityCourse, Molecular Genetics, Course, Molecular Genetics at Stockholms universitetMethods and Concepts in Molecular Life Sciences, Molecular Biology, Methods and Concepts in Molecular Life Sciences, Molecular Biology at Stockholm UniversityUniversity of CologneTraining, Next Generation Sequencing of HIV-1 at Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, South Africa, Training, Next Generation Sequencing of HIV-1 at Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, South Africa at University of KwaZulu-NatalMSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at Högskolan i Skövde
Github Skills (12)
bacteria10
assembly8
bioinformatics8
nextflow7
pipeline7
genomics7
data-exploration1
api1
viewer1
reproducible-science1
evolution1
phylogenetics1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
b16joski/BACTpipe
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
nextflowworkflow
b16joski/python-programming
Jan 2020 - Jan 2020
This is a repo for my python code
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
python-codepython
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