Luis Zapata
Team Lead at The Institute of Cancer Research
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLuis Zapata is a Team Lead at The Institute of Cancer Research with a decade of experience at the intersection of cancer evolution, immunogenomics and computational biology. He holds a PhD in Biomedicine and is a Marie Curie and La Caixa alumnus who builds and applies mathematical and population-genetics models to detect immune-driven genomic change. Hands-on with high-performance computing, containerization and large-scale sequence analysis, he develops reproducible methods shared on GitHub to accelerate research workflows. Known for translating evolutionary theory into practical algorithms, he leads multidisciplinary teams to uncover how immune processes shape tumor genomes and inform translational discovery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Biotechnology, Animal Sciences, Undergraduate, Biotechnology, Animal Sciences, Undergraduate at University of California, DavisEngineer's degree, Molecular Biotechnology, Undergraduate, Engineer's degree, Molecular Biotechnology, Undergraduate at Universidad de ChileDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedicine, BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biomedicine, BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES, PhD at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
English, Spanish, French, Catalan
Github Skills (7)
mathematica5
r5
scatter-plot5
hypothesis-testing5
regression-models5
visualization3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
luisgls/SOPRANO
Sep 2018 - Dec 2022
SelectiOn in PRotein ANnotated regiOns. Adapted dN/dS based method to detect selection in specific protein regions
Contributions:109 commits, 89 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
luisgls/SSB_selection
Jan 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:46 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 6 years 11 months
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