Pepijn Kooij
Young Researcher at Sao Paulo State University- The Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
Greater Campinas Brazil
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Top SchoolPepijn Kooij is a young researcher with a decade of experience probing the evolution and stability of mutualisms through fungus-growing insects, especially fungus-growing ants. He combines field taxonomy across the Americas with lab-based comparative genomics, phylogenetics, epigenetics and ONT nanopore sequencing to link fungal diversity, gene regulation and enzyme activity to ecological function. His work uniquely explores how fungal self-recognition and gut-surviving enzymes contribute to plant-degradation and colony-level symbiosis stability, supported by a FAPESP Young Researcher grant. Trained at Wageningen and Copenhagen (PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), he brings a rare blend of behavioural assays and cutting-edge molecular methods to questions bridging evolution, microbiology and ecosystem function.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Gymnasium CeleanumDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Københavns UniversitetMS, ecology, MS, ecology at Wageningen Universiteit en Researchcentrum
English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese
Github Skills (64)
genomes10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
computational-biology10
bioinformatics9
genome-annotation9
comparative-genomics9
fasta9
wdl8
genome8
sequence8
science8
bayesian8
assembly8
evolutionary7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
RBGKew/bioinfo-utils
Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
[PUBLIC] Common usage scripts and documentation for bioinformatics analyses and workflows at RBG Kew
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 3 years
analysesgenomicswdlbioinformaticscomputational-biology
pwkooij/genome-scripts
Sep 2016 - May 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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