Julien Lagarde
Head Of Bioinformatics
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJulien Lagarde is a seasoned bioinformatics leader with over 20 years of expertise in genomics and NGS data analysis, now heading Bioinformatics at Flomics where he builds scalable clinical-grade pipelines for cell-free RNA and variant analysis. He combines deep technical fluency across short- and long-read platforms (Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore), Nextflow/Snakemake workflow engineering, and AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver robust, reproducible solutions for precision medicine. A principal contributor to the GENCODE reference annotation and corresponding author of a benchmarking study that set new standards for plasma cfRNA workflows, he blends research-grade rigor with product-focused delivery. Known for scaling and mentoring cross-functional teams across data science, molecular biology, and clinical genetics, he also brings rare multi-lingual agility (French, English, Spanish) and an academic pedigree including a PhD with Extraordinary Prize from Universitat de Barcelona.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
DESS (Master), Bioinformatics, DESS (Master), Bioinformatics at Université Montpellier IMaîtrise, Molecular and Cell Bioiogy, Maîtrise, Molecular and Cell Bioiogy at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Excellent Cum Laude - Extraordinary PhD Prize, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Genetics, Excellent Cum Laude - Extraordinary PhD Prize at Universitat de Barcelona
French, English, Spanish, Catalan
Github Skills (35)
music-streaming10
cls10
subsonic10
merge10
transcriptomics10
streaming-audio10
streaming-api10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
audio-streaming10
streamer10
music10
genome9
sequencing9
audio9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guigolab/LyRic
Dec 2017 - Apr 2022
Long RNA-seq analysis workflow
Contributions:6 releases, 364 commits, 136 pushes in 4 years 4 months
rna-seqbioinformaticssnakemake-workflowclsrnaseq
julienlag/samToPolyA
Dec 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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