Laura Dijkhuizen
Bioinformatics Trainer For PhD Candidates
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Dijkhuizen is a bioinformatics trainer and genomics data scientist with eight years’ experience teaching and mentoring over 500 early-career researchers across technical and non-technical audiences. She develops and delivers hands-on courses in R, Python, Bash, reproducible pipelines and HPC, while maintaining a research background in plant symbiosis, metagenomics and environmental genomics from her Azolla-focused PhD. Known for clear communication and autonomous project leadership, she has also chaired a university PhD council representing ~1,800 peers and excels at consensus-building. Beyond teaching, Laura brings practical workflow expertise (Docker, GitHub, reproducible pipelines) and a knack for turning complex sequence data into biological insight — she even combines field photography with computational analysis to illuminate plant–microbe interactions.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Technische natuurkunde, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Technische natuurkunde at Universiteit TwenteBachelor of Science (BS), Biologie (Biology), Bachelor of Science (BS), Biologie (Biology) at University of Utrecht
Dutch, English
Github Skills (29)
version-control8
large-files8
git-lfs8
git-addons8
libgit28
bacteria7
versioning7
genome-annotation6
bioinformatics6
microbial-genomics6
ncbi6
genomes6
explore5
go5
describe5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lauralwd/lauralwd.github.io
Aug 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
lauralwd/Azolla_genus_metagenome
Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
This project aims do describe and explore the metagenomes of fern species of the genus Azolla.
Contributions:1 release, 30 PRs, 272 pushes in 3 years 7 months
metagenomesdescribeaimsexplore
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