Kaur Alasoo
Associate Professor
Tartu, Estonia
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Top SchoolKaur Alasoo is an Associate Professor and computational biologist with 19 years of experience combining experimental and computational approaches to decipher how common genetic variation shapes human macrophage immune responses and disease risk. Trained at Cambridge (PhD) and with MSc work across Instituto Superior Técnico and Aalto, he brings deep expertise in gene expression genetics, RNA-seq analysis, and machine learning-driven bioinformatics developed across roles at EMBL, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, and the University of Tartu. His work blends hands-on lab-aware computation with method development—ranging from predicting transcriptional regulators to mapping regulatory variation in immune cells—bridging theory and impactful experimental validation. Based in Tartu, Estonia, he leads bioinformatics efforts in Prof. Maido Remm’s group and is known for translating large-scale genomic datasets into mechanistic insights about immune regulation.
19 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Systems Biology, Master of Science (MSc) Systems Biology at Aalto UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computational Biology at University of CambridgeMaster of Science (MSc) Systems Biology, Master of Science (MSc) Systems Biology at Instituto Superior TécnicoMiina Härma GümnaasiumBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Tartu
Estonian, English, German, Finnish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian
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Github Skills (22)
mer10
ncbi10
reaction10
chain10
pathogen10
python9
genome9
sequencing9
infectious-diseases9
cli9
genomics9
command-line-tool9
bioinformatics8
lists7
complement7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bioinfo-ut/PlasmidSeeker
Oct 2017 - Feb 2021
A k-mer based program for the identification of known plasmids from whole-genome sequencing reads
Contributions:1 release, 67 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 4 months
pathogenwhole-genome-sequencinggenomencbibioconda
bioinfo-ut/AluMine
Dec 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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