Katrin Sameith
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKatrin Sameith is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist with 10+ years of experience translating complex sequencing datasets into actionable results, currently leading analysis and workflow development for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics at the DRESDEN-concept Genome Center. She builds well-documented, reproducible pipelines used across campus, organizes community training like a monthly Data Analysis Café and multi-day workshops, and routinely supports diverse research groups from bulk genomics to epigenomics. Her background spans academic research—from de novo assembly and comparative genomics to transcriptional network inference—giving her a strong foundation in both methods development and applied analysis. Based in Dresden, she thrives in international, collaborative environments, balances mentoring and teaching with hands-on coding, and brings the discipline of a practitioner who also volunteers as a Kids Yoga teacher and actively supports women in science.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Bioinformatics, Diplom Bioinformatics at University of JenaErasmus exchange Bioinformatics, Erasmus exchange Bioinformatics at University of Birmingham
German, English, Dutch, Latin
Github Skills (38)
virus10
assembly10
single-cell-genomics10
seq10
seurat10
nextflow10
pipeline10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
illumina10
sequence10
metagenomics10
cran10
nf-core9
genomics9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ktrns/scrnaseq
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Workflow for single-cell RNA-seq analysis using Seurat
Contributions:118 reviews, 158 commits, 39 PRs in 2 years
sequencernaseqpipelinerna-seq-analysisseurat
dcgc-bfx/scrnaseq2_doc
Sep 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
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