Kristina Gagalova
Research Fellowship - Bioinformatics
Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolKristina Gagalova is a bioinformatics researcher and software-minded computational biologist with nine years of experience applying NGS workflows, OMICS analysis and machine learning across academia and industry. Holding dual master's degrees in Bioinformatics and Molecular Biotechnology and a PhD pursuit at UBC, she combines solid wet-lab grounding with production-grade pipeline development (Nextflow Ambassador) and proven project delivery for partners including Roche and Willow Biosciences. Based in Australia, she excels at cross-disciplinary collaboration, turning complex genomic questions into reproducible analyses and automated workflows. Beyond core analysis she brings entrepreneurship training and hands-on commercialization experience, reflecting a knack for translating research into usable products.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Master Degree Bioinformatics and Systems biology, International Master Degree Bioinformatics and Systems biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master's degree Molecular Biotechnology, Master's degree Molecular Biotechnology at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di BolognaEcoscope training program Entrepreneurship, Ecoscope training program Entrepreneurship at The University of British Columbia
Bulgarian, English, Italian
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Github Skills (160)
blast10
taxonomy10
package-management10
gff10
conda10
metagenomics10
bioinformatics10
singularity9
reproducible-science9
nextflow9
pipeline9
bioconda9
slurm9
structural-variation9
genomes9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
KristinaGagalova/pante2-legacy
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
🍄 🧬An (improved) pipeline for predicting and masking transposable elements in multiple fungal genomes.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 1 year
KristinaGagalova/MyBioinformaticsAdventure
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
More on my research and PhD projects
Contributions:1 PR, 101 pushes in 3 years 1 month
phdmachine-learning
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