Thomas Kohl
IT-Manager, Team Leader, Project Manager at Research Center Borstel
Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Kohl is an experienced IT manager and team leader with nine years driving next-generation sequencing operations and bioinformatics at Research Center Borstel. He designs and maintains high-throughput NGS infrastructure (≈8,000 samples/year) and coordinates international whole-genome sequencing projects, translating wet-lab needs into robust IT and analysis pipelines. With a foundation in molecular biotechnology and a bioinformatics degree from Bielefeld, he combines hands-on sequencing know-how with software and data-management skills honed earlier at CeBiTec. Colleagues rely on him to keep complex platforms running smoothly while advancing research collaborations, and he brings a practical blend of lab literacy and systems thinking that eases technology adoption across multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bioinformatics and Genome Research, Bachelor's degree, Bioinformatics and Genome Research at Bielefeld UniversityGymnasiumWageningen University & Research
English, Dutch, German, german sign language, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
phylogeny10
variants9
genomics9
illumina9
genome9
bioinformatics8
pipeline8
sequence8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
TaKohl/TBseq_source
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
ngs-fzb/MTBseq_source
Feb 2017 - Feb 2019
MTBseq is an automated pipeline for mapping, variant calling and detection of resistance mediating and phylogenetic variants from illumina whole genome sequence data of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
sequencecallinggenomeresistancepipeline
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