Stephane Plaisance
Staff Scientist, Bioinformatics
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolStephane Plaisance is a Staff Scientist in Bioinformatics based in Leuven with over 12 years translating wet-lab expertise into actionable computational insights for biologists. Trained as a molecular and cellular biologist (PhD) and with 18 years of hands-on bench experience, he bridges DNA/protein design, expression systems, transgenesis and sequence mining to guide experiments from raw data back to the lab. At VIB he coaches researchers to digest complex datasets, combining practical molecular biotechnology know-how with data-mining and bioinformatics training. His career blends deep academic postdoctoral work in protein design and cardiovascular molecular medicine with pragmatic tooling and workflow development for everyday wet-lab problems. Less obvious: he leverages a rare dual perspective—seasoned bench scientist turned dataminer—to reduce the gap between computational predictions and experimental feasibility.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
License and Master, Cellular Biology and Immunology, Master, License and Master, Cellular Biology and Immunology, Master at Aix-Marseille UniversityPh.D., Molecular & Cellular Biology, Ph.D., Molecular & Cellular Biology at Pierre and Marie Curie University
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Github Skills (200)
yaml-processor10
duplication10
structural-variation10
knitr10
splat10
portable10
spark-ml10
genetic10
json10
toml10
python-bindings10
genome-annotation10
seq10
bash10
genome-assembly10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
BITS-VIB/comparing_NGS-mappers
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
splaisan/analyses
Mar 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:83 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
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