Kaisa Thorell
Assistant Professor, DDLS Fellow at University of Gothenburg
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolKaisa Thorell is an Assistant Professor and Data Driven Life Science fellow at the University of Gothenburg with a decade of experience at the intersection of microbial genomics, host-pathogen biology, and cancer research. Trained as a biomedical scientist with a PhD in medical sciences, she transitioned from experimental cancer genetics to integrative bioinformatics and systems biology focused on Helicobacter pylori and gastric carcinogenesis. Her work spans bacterial whole-genome sequencing, RNA-seq and metagenomics, and she has led projects from bench experiments to large-scale microbiome study planning and project management. Kaisa has held research and clinical microbiology roles at Karolinska Institutet and Sahlgrenska University Hospital and brings practical diagnostic lab experience to her computational analyses. She also has a background in teaching and science communication, having taught biology and chemistry at upper secondary level. Curious by nature, she combines deep microbial curiosity with a talent for translating complex multi-omics data into insights about infection-driven cancer mechanisms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Music, High School, Music at Agnebergsgymnasiet, UddevallaTechnical Preparatory Year, Science, Technical Preparatory Year, Science at University WestMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Biomedicine, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Biomedicine at Lund UniversityIndependent courses, Independent courses at Chalmers University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical Sciences at University of Gothenburg
Swedish, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (68)
genomics10
bacteria10
pathogen10
assembly10
bioinformatics10
genome-annotation10
reproducible-science9
next-generation-sequencing9
nextflow9
ncbi9
pipeline9
fasta9
genomes9
microbial-genomics9
genome-analysis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
KThorellGroup/BACTpipe
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
BACTpipe: An assembly and annotation pipeline for bacterial genomics
Contributions:2 reviews, 78 commits, 13 PRs in 5 years
pipelinegenomicsbioinformaticsbacterialannotation
thorellk/BACTpipe-1
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
BACTpipe: An assembly and annotation pipeline for bacterial genomics
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pipelinegenomicsbioinformaticsbacterialannotation
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