Liz Villabona-arenas
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolLiz Villabona-arenas is a biologist and bioinformatics specialist with nine years of experience focused on viruses, evolutionary biology, and phylogenetics. She combines academic training from Wageningen University, Imperial College London, and LSHTM with practical modeling expertise in infectious disease dynamics. Her work spans computational approaches to pathogen evolution and applied projects such as identifying prostate cancer-specific nanobodies during an ENPICOM internship. Based in Wageningen, she bridges field-relevant epidemiological insight with hands-on bioinformatics analysis. Known for clear interdisciplinary collaboration, she brings both quantitative modeling and wet-lab aware perspective to viral phylogeny problems.
9 years of coding experience
Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Mathematical Models of the Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology at Imperial College LondonDisease Outbreaks in Low and Middle Income Countries, Disease Outbreaks in Low and Middle Income Countries at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of LondonMaster of Science - MS, Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS, Bioinformatics at Wageningen University & ResearchBachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology, General at Universidad Industrial de SantanderClinic on Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data (MMED 2021), Clinic on Meaningful Modeling of Epidemiological Data (MMED 2021) at Stellenbosch University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (32)
pathogen10
genome-assembly9
bioinformatics8
journal7
beast7
placement7
location7
open-access6
science6
cpython6
creative-commons5
cpp5
assembler5
cython5
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Chjulian/TransmissionPairs_iDoT
Jun 2022 - Apr 2026
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Chjulian/sheffield_HT
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:1 release, 1 tag in 4 months
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