Summary
Yumary Vasquez is a postdoctoral researcher and computational biologist with eight years of experience specializing in host–microbe co-evolution and symbiont genomics. Trained with a PhD in Quantitative and Systems Biology from UC Merced, she combines NGS pipelines, phylogenetics, HPC workflows, and scripting in R/Python/Bash to uncover nutritional interactions between insects and their microbes. Her work spans comparative genomics, population genetics, and immunology, and she has translated research into peer-reviewed publications since undergrad. Currently at the Joint Genome Institute, she is also building applied machine learning skills to broaden her analytic toolkit and tackle diverse genomic problems. A practical team leader with teaching experience, she maintains an active project portfolio and CV at yumaryvasquez.github.io.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biotechnology at California State University San Marcos
Medical Science and Health Graduate, Medical Science and Health Graduate at Trabuco Hills High School
PhD, Quantitative and Systems Biology, PhD, Quantitative and Systems Biology at University of California, Merced
English, Spanish