Verónica Mixão
Junior Researcher at Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge
Portugal
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Top SchoolVerónica Mixão is a molecular biologist and bioinformatician with a decade of research experience integrating genomics, population genetics and pathogen surveillance to understand emergence of pathogenicity under a One Health lens. Currently a Junior Researcher at Portugal’s Instituto Nacional de Saúde, she develops and manages bioinformatics solutions for genomic surveillance of bacterial and yeast pathogens, including the surveillance-oriented tool ReporTree. Her work spans Illumina, PacBio and Nanopore data and uniquely emphasizes hybrid genome analysis—contributing to multiple high-impact studies on Candida hybridization and loss of heterozygosity. Trained at Pompeu Fabra (PhD) and Nova Lisboa, she combines field-relevant clinical and environmental datasets with computational pipelines to strengthen links between genetic clusters and epidemiology.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Medical Parasitology, Master of Science (MSc), Medical Parasitology at Universidade Nova de LisboaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedicine, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedicine at Universitat Pompeu FabraBachelor of Science (BSc), Biology with specialization in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Biology with specialization in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Universidade de Lisboa
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (22)
genetic10
pathogen10
next-generation-sequencing9
linkage9
infectious-diseases9
surveillance9
mer4
cancer-genomics4
layout4
visualization3
spectra3
metadata3
visual-analytics3
tree3
graph2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
insapathogenomics/mutation_profile
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Identify the sequence context flanking SNPs of interest and screen for potential profiles/signatures of interest
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 2 PRs in 17 days
vmixao/ReporTree
Aug 2022 - Dec 2024
A surveillance-oriented tool to strengthen the linkage between pathogen genetic clusters and epidemiological data
Contributions:114 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 3 months
pathogenlinkageclustersgeneticsurveillance
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