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.
11 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 (36)
virus10
assembly10
seq10
seurat10
nextflow10
rna-seq10
illumina10
metagenomics10
cran10
single-cell-genomics9
pipeline9
bioinformatics9
nf-core9
chip-seq8
r-package7
Programming languages (9)
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
rna-seqseurat
ktrns/atacseq
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
ATAC-seq peak-calling, QC and differential analysis pipeline
Contributions:10 pushes in 26 days
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