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Harvard-trained biomedical writer. 13 years editing, top journals, 25 publications.

Profile Summary

I am a PhD in Zoology and Genomics, with extensive experience in research, bioinforatics and statistics. I have edited scientific papers for 13 years and reviewed for top journals (for example: Nature Ecology and Evolution, PLoS Genetics, Bioinformatics). I offer speed and precision necessary to make your manuscript significsntly better and more impactful. I am easy to work with and highly respectful of your work and time.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Evolutionary Biology
• ★ Omics
• ★ Entrepreneurship
• ☆ Zoology
• ☆ Wildlife Management
• ☆ Animal Science
• ☆ Animal Biotechnology
• ☆ Mammalian Biology
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Comparative Genomics
• ☆ Molecular Evolution
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Conservation Biology
• ☆ Conservation Genetics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Technology Scouting, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Go-to-Market Strategy Consulting, Healthcare Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Insights

Product Development Product Evaluation, Concept Development, Product Launch Support

Work Experience

Consultant

KozakDx

March 2024 - Present

Entrepreneur in Residence

Scope Fluidics

December 2023 - Present

Assistant Project Scientist

California Conservation Genomics Project

February 2022 - October 2023

Biodiversity Genomics Fellow

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

April 2016 - January 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wellcome Sanger Institute

June 2015 - April 2016

Education

PhD (Zoology)

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

October 2011 - July 2015

MPhil (Zoology)

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

October 2010 - September 2011

BA (cum laude) (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology)

Harvard University

September 2006 - May 2010

A-Levels

Dulwich College

September 2004 - June 2006

Certifications

• AI Leadership

  DataCamp

  https://www.datacamp.com/completed/statement-of-accomplishment/track/9dd45861398a59d0110aef8b5d6769a754d81d31

  May 2025 - Present

• Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I)

  scrum.org

  https://www.credly.com/badges/f6e13a77-9276-40d2-b1eb-ad6d9438425f

  August 2024 - Present

• Advanced Project Management Skills

  Linkedin.com

  https://www.linkedin.com/learning/certificates/b2f61bd83065a9d5ae704949ed40114aa23eeb1ad1ddbc35f9114368bb298641

  January 2024 - Present

Publications

PREPRINT

Eddie Pérochon, Neil Rosser, Krzysztof Kozak, W. Owen McMillan, Blanca Huertas, James Mallet, Jonathan Ready, Keith Willmott, Marianne Elias, Maël Doré (2025). Müllerian mimicry in Neotropical butterflies: One mimicry ring to bring them all, and in the jungle bind them .

Nicol Rueda-M, Carolina Pardo-Diaz, Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich, W. Owen McMillan, Krzysztof M. Kozak, Carlos F. Arias, Jonathan Ready, Shane McCarthy, Richard Durbin, Chris D. Jiggins, et al. (2023). Genomic evidence reveals three sequential W-autosome fusions in Heliconius butterflies .

(2019). Species specificity and intraspecific variation in the chemical profiles of Heliconius butterflies across a large geographic range .

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Erin R Voss, Merly Escalona, Krzysztof M Kozak, William Seligmann, Colin W Fairbairn, Oanh Nguyen, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Chris J Conroy, James L Patton, Rauri C K Bowie, et al. (2024). De novo genome assembly of a Geomyid rodent, Botta’s pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae bottae) . Journal of Heredity.

Krzysztof M Kozak, Merly Escalona, Noravit Chumchim, Colin Fairbairn, Mohan P A Marimuthu, Oanh Nguyen, Ruta Sahasrabudhe, William Seligmann, Chris Conroy, James L Patton, et al. (2024). A highly contiguous genome assembly for the pocket mouse Perognathus longimembris longimembris . Journal of Heredity.

Krzysztof M. Kozak(2022). Repeated genetic adaptation to altitude in two tropical butterflies . Nature Communications. 13. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Krzysztof M Kozak, Mathieu Joron, W Owen McMillan, Chris D Jiggins, Davide Pisani(2021). Rampant Genome-Wide Admixture across the Heliconius Radiation . Genome Biology and Evolution. Oxford University Press ({OUP})

Sebastián Mena, Krzysztof M. Kozak, Rafael E. Cárdenas, María F. Checa(2020). Forest stratification shapes allometry and flight morphology of tropical butterflies . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 287. (1937). p. 20201071. The Royal Society

(2020). Variation of chemical compounds in wild Heliconiini reveals ecological factors involved in the evolution of chemical defenses in mimetic butterflies . Ecology and Evolution.

Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Consortium and others(2017). Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae . Nature. 552. (7683). p. 96. Nature Publishing Group

Kingsley, Evan P and Kozak, Krzysztof M and Pfeifer, Susanne P and Yang, Dou-Shuan and Hoekstra, Hopi E(2017). The ultimate and proximate mechanisms driving the evolution of long tails in forest deer mice. Evolution. 71. (2). p. 261--273. Wiley Online Library

Kozak, K.M., Wahlberg, N., Neild, A.F.E., Dasmahapatra, K.K., Mallet, J., Jiggins, C.D.(2015). Multilocus species trees show the recent adaptive radiation of the mimetic heliconius butterflies . Systematic Biology. 64. (3). p. 505-524.

Rosser, N., Kozak, K.M., Phillimore, A.B., Mallet, J.(2015). Extensive range overlap between heliconiine sister species: Evidence for sympatric speciation in butterflies? . BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15. (1).

Martin, Simon Henry and Eriksson, Anders and Kozak, Krzysztof M and Manica, Andrea and Jiggins, Chris D(2015). Speciation in Heliconius butterflies: minimal contact followed by millions of generations of hybridisation. BioRxiv. p. 015800. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Merrill, R.M., Dasmahapatra, K.K., Davey, J.W., Dell'Aglio, D.D., Hanly, J.J., Huber, B., Jiggins, C.D., Joron, M., Kozak, K.M., Llaurens, V., et al.(2015). The diversification of Heliconius butterflies: What have we learned in 150 years? . Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 28. (8). p. 1417-1438.

Briscoe, A.D., Macias-Muñoz, A., Kozak, K.M., Walters, J.R., Yuan, F., Jamie, G.A., Martin, S.H., Dasmahapatra, K.K., Ferguson, L.C., Mallet, J., et al.(2013). Female Behaviour Drives Expression and Evolution of Gustatory Receptors in Butterflies . PLoS Genetics. 9. (7).

Nadeau, N.J., Martin, S.H., Kozak, K.M., Salazar, C., Dasmahapatra, K.K., Davey, J.W., Baxter, S.W., Blaxter, M.L., Mallet, J., Jiggins, C.D.(2013). Genome-wide patterns of divergence and gene flow across a butterfly radiation . Molecular Ecology. 22. (3). p. 814-826.

OTHER

Krzysztof M. Kozak, W. Owen McMillan, Mathieu Joron, Christopher D. Jiggins(2018). Genome-wide admixture is common across the Heliconius radiation . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

CONFERENCE PAPER

Harding, Nicholas and Kozak, Krzysztof and Lawniczak, Mara(2017). A GENOME-WIDE ANALYSIS OF RECENT SELECTION IN AFRICAN MALARIA VECTOR POPULATIONS. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. 95. (5). p. 578--578.