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Computational Biologist & Bioinformatics Consultant | Genomics Data Analysis (R/Python) | Scientific Writing

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Computational biologist and bioinformatics researcher with over 10 years of experience analysing genome-wide variation, epigenetic regulation and evolutionary processes using high-throughput sequencing data. I specialise in extracting clear, robust insights from complex, high-dimensional datasets using reproducible workflows in R, Bash and Python. I have led multi-year, cross-institutional projects from study design to final publication, transforming large genomic datasets into statistically rigorous and interpretable results. My work combines strong quantitative modelling, data cleaning and pipeline development with clear reporting and scientific writing. I can assist with: Study design and analytical planning; Genome-wide data analysis (population genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics); Statistical modelling in R; Reproducible pipeline development (CLI, HPC environments); Data visualisation and interpretation; Manuscript preparation and revision. I have contributed to national research programs across academia and government and am experienced working independently or as part of distributed research teams. If you are looking for rigorous, reproducible and well-documented analysis of complex biological datasets, I would be pleased to support your project from conception to publication.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Genomics
• ★ Statistics
• ★ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Zoology
• ☆ Animal Science
• ☆ Animal Behavior/Ethology
• ☆ Animal Genetics
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Transcriptomics
• ☆ Comparative Genomics
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Gene Expression Analysis
• ☆ Genome Sequencing
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ Molecular Ecology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Data Management
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Data Mining
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Conservation Biology
• ☆ Conservation Genetics
• ☆ Population Genetics
• ☆ R
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Fact Checking
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ Science Communication

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Postdoctoral Researcher

UNSW Sydney

February 2021 - December 2025

Postdoctoral Researcher

The University of Sydney

October 2015 - October 2020

Education

PhD

Paris 13 University

September 2010 - October 2014

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Boris Yagound, Tsering C. L. Chan, Gregory P. Brown, Harrison J. F. Eyck, Richard Shine, Lee A. Rollins (2025). Infection by the Lungworm Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala Affects the Expression of Immune‐Related microRNAs by Its Co‐Evolved Host, the Cane Toad Rhinella marina . Molecular Ecology.

Boris Yagound, Roshmi R. Sarma, Richard J. Edwards, Mark F. Richardson, Carlos M. Rodriguez Lopez, Michael R. Crossland, Gregory P. Brown, Jayna L. DeVore, Richard Shine, Lee A. Rollins (2024). Is developmental plasticity triggered by DNA methylation changes in the invasive cane toad (Rhinella marina)? . Ecology and Evolution.

Boris Yagound, Andrea J. West, Mark F. Richardson, Jodie Gruber, Jack G. Reid, Martin J. Whiting, Lee A. Rollins (2022). Captivity induces large and population‐dependent brain transcriptomic changes in wild‐caught cane toads (Rhinella marina) . Molecular Ecology.

Boris Yagound, Andrea J. West, Mark F. Richardson, Daniel Selechnik, Richard Shine, Lee A. Rollins (2022). Brain transcriptome analysis reveals gene expression differences associated with dispersal behaviour between range‐front and range‐core populations of invasive cane toads in Australia . Molecular Ecology.

Yagound, B., West, A.J., Richardson, M.F., Gruber, J., Reid, J.G., Whiting, M.J., Rollins, L.A.(2022). Captivity induces large and population-dependent brain transcriptomic changes in wild-caught cane toads (Rhinella marina) . Molecular Ecology. 31. (19). p. 4949-4961.

Watson, O.T., Buchmann, G., Young, P., Lo, K., Remnant, E.J., Yagound, B., Shambrook, M., Hill, A.F., Oldroyd, B.P., Ashe, A.(2022). Abundant small RNAs in the reproductive tissues and eggs of the honey bee, Apis mellifera . BMC Genomics. 23. (1).

Silva, R.R., Martello, F., Feitosa, R.M., Silva, O.G.M., do Prado, L.P., Brandão, C.R.F., de Albuquerque, E.Z., Morini, M.S.C., Delabie, J.H.C., dos Santos Monteiro, E.C., et al.(2022). ATLANTIC ANTS: a data set of ants in Atlantic Forests of South America . Ecology. 103. (2).

Yagound, B., West, A.J., Richardson, M.F., Selechnik, D., Shine, R., Rollins, L.A.(2022). Brain transcriptome analysis reveals gene expression differences associated with dispersal behaviour between range-front and range-core populations of invasive cane toads in Australia . Molecular Ecology. 31. (6). p. 1700-1715.

Boris Yagound, Carlos A. M. Cardoso‐Júnior, Isobel Ronai, Emily J. Remnant, Klaus Hartfelder, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2021). DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers . Molecular Ecology.

Boris Yagound, Emily J. Remnant, Gabriele Buchmann, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2021). Reply to Soley: DNA methylation marks are stably transferred across generations in honey bees . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Boris Yagound, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Michael H. Allsopp, Michael J. Holmes, Gabrielle Buchmann, Amro Zayed, Madeleine Beekman (2021). Adaptive, caste-specific changes to recombination rates in a thelytokous honeybee population . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Boris Yagound, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2021). Parent-of-origin effects, allele-specific expression, genomic imprinting and paternal manipulation in social insects . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Boris Yagound, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2021). The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

Yagound, B., Remnant, E.J., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B.P.(2021). DNAmethylation marks are stably transferred across generations in honey bees . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 118. (28).

Oldroyd, B.P., Yagound, B.(2021). The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376. (1826).

Oldroyd, B.P., Yagound, B.(2021). Parent-of-origin effects, allele-specific expression, genomic imprinting and paternal manipulation in social insects . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 376. (1826).

Cardoso-Júnior, C.A.M., Yagound, B., Ronai, I., Remnant, E.J., Hartfelder, K., Oldroyd, B.P.(2021). DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers . Molecular Ecology. 30. (19). p. 4804-4818.

Oldroyd, B.P., Yagound, B., Allsopp, M.H., Holmes, M.J., Buchmann, G., Zayed, A., Beekman, M.(2021). Adaptive, caste-specific changes to recombination rates in a thelytokous honeybee population . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 288. (1952).

Boris Yagound, Emily J. Remnant, Gabriele Buchmann, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2020). Intergenerational transfer of DNA methylation marks in the honey bee . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Boris Yagound, Nicholas M. A. Smith, Emily J. Remnant, Charles S. P. Foster, Gabriele Buchmann, Michael H. Allsopp, Clement F. Kent, Amro Zayed, Stephen A. Rose, Kitty Lo, et al. (2020). Paternally‐biased gene expression follows kin‐selected predictions in female honey bee embryos . Molecular Ecology.

Smith, N.M.A., Yagound, B., Remnant, E.J., Foster, C.S.P., Buchmann, G., Allsopp, M.H., Kent, C.F., Zayed, A., Rose, S.A., Lo, K., et al.(2020). Paternally-biased gene expression follows kin-selected predictions in female honey bee embryos . Molecular Ecology. 29. (8). p. 1523-1533.

Yagound, B., Dogantzis, K.A., Zayed, A., Lim, J., Broekhuyse, P., Remnant, E.J., Beekman, M., Allsopp, M.H., Aamidor, S.E., Dim, O., et al.(2020). A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis . Current Biology. 30. (12). p. 2248-2259.e6.

Yagound, B., Remnant, E.J., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B.P.(2020). Intergenerational transfer of DNA methylation marks in the honey bee . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117. (51). p. 32519-32527.

Boris Yagound, Nicholas M A Smith, Gabriele Buchmann, Benjamin P Oldroyd, Emily J Remnant, Maria Costantini (2019). Unique DNA Methylation Profiles Are Associated with cis-Variation in Honey Bees . Genome Biology and Evolution.

Boris Yagound, Nicholas M. A. Smith, Claire Wade, Michael H. Allsopp, Brock A. Harpur, Amro Zayed, Stephen A. Rose, Jan Engelstädter, Nadine C. Chapman, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2019). Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee . Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Boris Yagound, Emily J. Remnant, Niklas Mather, Thomas L. Gillard, Madeleine Beekman (2019). Direct transmission by injection affects competition among RNA viruses in honeybees . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Smith, N.M.A., Wade, C., Allsopp, M.H., Harpur, B.A., Zayed, A., Rose, S.A., Engelstädter, J., Chapman, N.C., Yagound, B., Oldroyd, B.P.(2019). Strikingly high levels of heterozygosity despite 20 years of inbreeding in a clonal honey bee . Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32. (2). p. 144-152.

Remnant, E.J., Mather, N., Gillard, T.L., Yagound, B., Beekman, M.(2019). Direct transmission by injection affects competition among RNA viruses in honeybees . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 286. (1895).

Yagound, B., Smith, N.M.A., Buchmann, G., Oldroyd, B.P., Remnant, E.J., Costantini, M.(2019). Unique DNA Methylation Profiles Are Associated with cis-Variation in Honey Bees . Genome Biology and Evolution. 11. (9). p. 2517-2530.

Boris Yagound, Sarah E. Aamidor, Isobel Ronai, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2018). Sex mosaics in the honeybee: how haplodiploidy makes possible the evolution of novel forms of reproduction in social Hymenoptera . Biology Letters.

Aamidor, S.E., Yagound, B., Ronai, I., Oldroyd, B.P.(2018). Sex mosaics in the honeybee: How haplodiploidy makes possible the evolution of novel forms of reproduction in social Hymenoptera . Biology Letters. 14. (11).

Boris Yagound, Michael Duncan, Nadine C. Chapman, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2017). Subfamily‐dependent alternative reproductive strategies in worker honeybees . Molecular Ecology.

Yagound, B., Crowet, M., Leroy, C., Poteaux, C., Châline, N.(2017). Interspecific variation in neighbour–stranger discrimination in ants of the Neoponera apicalis complex . Ecological Entomology. 42. (2). p. 125-136.

Yagound, B., Duncan, M., Chapman, N.C., Oldroyd, B.P.(2017). Subfamily-dependent alternative reproductive strategies in worker honeybees . Molecular Ecology. 26. (24). p. 6938-6947.

Yagound, B., Gouttefarde, R., Leroy, C., Belibel, R., Barbaud, C., Fresneau, D., Chameron, S., Poteaux, C., Châline, N.(2015). Fertility Signaling and Partitioning of Reproduction in the Ant Neoponera apicalis . Journal of Chemical Ecology. 41. (6). p. 557-566.

Yagound, B., Blacher, P., Fresneau, D., Poteaux, C., Châline, N.(2014). Status discrimination through fertility signalling allows ants to regulate reproductive conflicts . Animal Behaviour. 93. p. 25-35.

Blacher, P., Yagound, B., Lecoutey, E., Devienne, P., Chameron, S., Châline, N.(2013). Drifting behaviour as an alternative reproductive strategy for social insect workers . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 280. (1771).

Yagound, B., Blacher, P., Chameron, S., Châline, N.(2012). Social Context and Reproductive Potential Affect Worker Reproductive Decisions in a Eusocial Insect . PLoS ONE. 7. (12).

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Boris Yagound, Roshmi R. Sarma, Richard J. Edwards, Mark F. Richardson, Carlos M. Rodriguez Lopez, Michael R. Crossland, Gregory P. Brown, Jayna L. DeVore, Richard Shine, Lee A. Rollins (2023). Is developmental plasticity triggered by DNA methylation changes in the invasive cane toad (Rhinella marina)? .

Boris Yagound, Tsering C. L. Chan, Gregory P. Brown, Harrison J. F. Eyck, Richard Shine, Lee A. Rollins (2023). Infection by the lungwormRhabdias pseudosphaerocephalaaffects the expression of immune-related microRNAs by its co-evolved host, the cane toadRhinella marina .

Boris Yagound, Andrea J. West, Mark F. Richardson, Daniel Selechnik, Richard Shine, Lee A. Rollins (2021). Brain transcriptome analysis reveals gene expression differences associated with dispersal behaviour between range-front and range-core populations of invasive cane toads in Australia .

Boris Yagound, Carlos A. M. Cardoso-Junior, Isobel Ronai, Emily J. Remnant, Klaus Hartfelder, Benjamin P. Oldroyd (2021). DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers .

Boris Yagound, Emily J. Remnant, Niklas Mather, Thomas L. Gillard, Madeleine Beekman (2018). Vector-mediated viral transmission favours less virulent viruses .

OTHER

Chan, T.C.L., Yagound, B., Brown, G.P., Eyck, H.J.F., Shine, R., Rollins, L.A.(2023). Infection by the lungworm Rhabdias pseudosphaerocephala affects the expression of immune-related microRNAs by its co-evolved host, the cane toad Rhinella marina . bioRxiv.

Cardoso-Junior, C.A.M., Yagound, B., Ronai, I., Remnant, E.J., Hartfelder, K., Oldroyd, B.P.(2021). DNA methylation is not a driver of gene expression reprogramming in young honey bee workers . bioRxiv.

Yagound, B., West, A.J., Richardson, M.F., Selechnik, D., Shine, R., Rollins, L.A.(2021). Brain transcriptome analysis reveals gene expression differences associated with dispersal behaviour between range-front and range-core populations of invasive cane toads in Australia . bioRxiv.

Watson, O.T., Buchmann, G., Young, P., Lo, K., Remnant, E.J., Yagound, B., Shambrook, M., Hill, A.F., Oldroyd, B.P., Ashe, A.(2021). Abundant small RNAs in the reproductive tissues of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, are a plausible mechanism for epigenetic inheritance and parental manipulation of gene expression . bioRxiv.

Remnant, E.J., Mather, N., Gillard, T.L., Yagound, B., Beekman, M.(2018). Vector-mediated viral transmission favours less virulent viruses . bioRxiv.