whoami
I’m a bioinformatician working in the Bioinformatics Unit at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC), Oeiras, Portugal. I have an academic background in cell and molecular biology and experience in microbial ecology and bioinformatics. Experience with wet and dry laboratory methods acquired through several scientific projects during the last 5 years. Bioinformatic expertise with metabarcoding, metagenomics, bulk- and sc-RNA-seq data analysis using bash, R and python.
Most of my research is around microbial ecology conducted during the time (2016-2019) that I worked in the EcoBioTec research group at CiiMAR-UP. There, I tried to understand how environmental factors structure microbial communities, particularly on marine environments (e.g., microcosms, estuaries and ocean). Since I joined IGC (Oct 2019), I’ve been working mostly with transcriptomics (bulk-/single-cell-RNA-seq) across several ongoing projects at the institute related with a variety of subjects such as plant physiology, development or immunity.
In general, I’m interested in using bioinformatics to answer biological questions related with microbiology and cell/molecular biology.
Occasionally, I answer questions related with programming (R/bash/python), metabarcoding, metagenomics and transcriptomics in Biostars.
Interests
- Statistics
- Genomics
- GNU/Linux
- Microbiology
- Programming
- Bioinformatics
- Transcriptomics
- Molecular/cell biology
- Reproducible research
Education
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PG Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - 24 ECTS, 2018
Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto
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MSc Cell and Molecular Biology, 2017
Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto
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BSc in Biology, 2015
Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto
