Tania Kurbessoian
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTania Kurbessoian is a Microbiologist and Bioinformatics specialist with a Ph.D. and eight years of experience applying NGS, genome assembly and annotation, and custom pipeline development to fungal evolution and environmental microbiology. She has led large-scale genomic analyses—most notably a bioinformatics pipeline for over 300 Histoplasma clinical isolates—and translated that expertise into applied work on built-environment microbiology and Legionella case investigations at Clark Seif Clark. Comfortable across wet-lab and computational domains, she pairs skills in MALDI-TOF MS, PCR, enzyme assays and aseptic technique with Bash scripting, metagenomic binning, and R-based amplicon analysis. Tania’s work includes applied remediation projects isolating extremophilic melanized fungi from contaminated brownfields and contributions to planetary protection with NASA JPL, demonstrating a knack for high-stakes, real-world microbial problem solving. She also co-founded the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists and has a track record of teaching and mentoring, securing grants to build omics capacity in underserved research communities.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, NorthridgeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mycology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mycology at University of California, Riverside
English, Armenian, Russian, python
Github Skills (34)
genome-annotation10
genome9
comparative-genomics9
genomics8
bioinformatics8
genome-assembly7
sequencing7
genomics-visualization6
pipeline6
next-generation-sequencing6
illumina5
meta-analysis5
cancer-genomics4
css4
assembler4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tania-k/tania-k.github.io
Jan 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:169 pushes in 3 years 4 months
tania-k/KaKs_Orthofinder
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 14 days
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