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Colombia

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Bioengineer | Bioinformatics & Molecular Biology | Specialist in Microbial Interactions & Computational Pipeline Develop

Profile Summary

Bioengineer and Bioinformatician with a background in molecular biology and a focus on microbial ecology and metagenomics. I bridge the gap between complex biological questions and computational solutions, with hands-on experience in high-resolution genomic analysis. My expertise lies in decoding microbial interactions within diverse ecosystems to drive innovation in sustainable agriculture and biotechnology. Bioinformatics Pipelines: experience in Shotgun Metagenomics workflows, including quality control, assembly, binning (MAGs), and functional annotation. Tools & Frameworks: Experience in EMBL-EBI resources (Ensembl, UniProt, Reactome) for pathway analysis and biomarker discovery. Programming & Data Science: Experience command of Python and R for analysis and Bash/Linux for high-throughput data processing. Molecular Biology: Deep understanding of gene regulation, metabolic traits, and high-resolution imaging techniques. Microbial Characterization of Coffee Fermentation (Ongoing): Leading a metagenomic study to characterize bacterial microbiota during coffee mucilage degradation. Utilizing shotgun sequencing to identify key enzymatic functions and metabolic pathways that optimize fermentation quality. Biomarker Analysis in Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS)Integrated multi-omic data (genetics, immunity, and coagulation) to propose novel biomarkers for APS. Leveraged EMBL-EBI computational tools to map complex molecular interactions and clinical evidence into a cohesive diagnostic framework.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Biotechnology & Bioengineering
• ★ Bioinformatics
• ★ Python
• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Agricultural Microbiology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Genomics
• ☆ PCR
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Biomedical Engineering
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Agricultural Biotechnology
• ☆ Biological Taxonomy/Classification
• ☆ Matlab
• ☆ Excel
• ☆ Java
• ☆ R
• ☆ Markup Languages

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, Audio Transcription, Translation

Research Scientific and Technical Research

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Research Intern

AGROSAVIA

February 2025 - June 2025

Education

Computational Biology

Universidad De Los Andes

August 2025 - Present

BS, Bioengineering

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

January 2021 - September 2025

Certifications

• Introduction to Machine Learning

  Duke University

  https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/0OVYKID9PNOT

  December 2025 - Present

• Intro to machine learning

  Kaggle

  August 2025 - Present

• Pandas

  Kaggle

  August 2025 - Present

• Partner: NDG Linux Unhatched

  Cisco Networking Academy

  September 2024 - Present

Publications

DISSERTATION THESIS

M. A. Molina & A. F. Oñate Desarrollo de una interfaz web basada en Python para el análisis acústico del habla en tiempo real. [online]. Disponible en: http://hdl.handle.net/10554/69631 .