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Bioinformatics Scientist | NGS Pipeline Development, Pathogen Genomics, and Epidemiological Analysis

Profile Summary

PhD-trained bioinformatician with 10+ years of experience in NGS data analysis, pipeline development, and pathogen genomics. Skilled in Nextflow, Python, R, SQL, SAS, and cloud/HPC deployment, with expertise across Illumina, Oxford Nanopore, and PacBio platforms. I help academic, biotech, and public health clients translate complex sequencing data into clear, actionable insights through reproducible workflows, variant analysis, and genomic epidemiology.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computational Biology
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Comparative Genomics
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Meta-Analysis
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ Gene & Protein Expression Analysis
• ☆ Phylogenetics
• ☆ Python
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ R
• ☆ Vaccine Development
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ Viral Diseases
• ☆ Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
• ☆ Ebola
• ☆ West Nile Virus
• ☆ COVID-19
• ☆ Chikungunya
• ☆ Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus
• ☆ Syphilis
• ☆ Antibiotic Resistance Research
• ☆ HIV/AIDS Treatment
• ☆ Malaria
• ☆ Dengue
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Epidemiology
• ☆ Pandemic Preparedness
• ☆ Global Health
• ☆ Disease Control And Prevention
• ☆ Community Health Services

Services

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

Writing Technical Writing, Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing, Translation

Research Meta-Research, Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

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

Product Development Product Evaluation, Product Validation, Quality Assurance & Control (QA/QC), Concept Development, Product Launch Support

Work Experience

Harvard University

- Present

Principal Scientist Bioinformatics

Ginkgo Bioworks.com

February 2023 - May 2025

Researcher, Research Associate

Harvard University

September 2019 - February 2023

Senior Genomics Scientist

Chicago Department of Public Health

May 2021 - January 2023

Education

PhD

University of Georgia

August 2015 - August 2019

Master in Science

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

August 2013 - August 2015

Bachelor in Science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

August 2008 - June 2013

Certifications

• Wilderness Guide

  Mountain Medicines

  April 2025 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Xueting Qiu, Lesley McGee, Laura L Hammitt, Lindsay R. Grant, Katherine L. O’Brien, William P. Hanage, Marc Lipsitch, Paul Keim (2024). Prediction of post-PCV13 pneumococcal evolution using invasive disease data enhanced by inverse-invasiveness weighting . mBio.

Xueting Qiu, Joseph T. Hicks, Adi Stern, Kimberly Edwards, Do-Kyun Kim, James E. Hixson, Scott Krauss, Richard J. Webby, Robert G. Webster, Justin Bahl(2022). Host diversity and behavior determine patterns of interspecies transmission and geographic diffusion of avian influenza A subtypes among North American wild reservoir species . PLOS Pathogens. 18. (4). p. e1009973. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})

Xueting Qiu, James A. Hay, Joel Hellewell(2021). When intuition falters: repeated testing accuracy during an epidemic . European Journal of Epidemiology. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Xueting Qiu, Joel C Miller, Derek R MacFadden, William P Hanage (2021). Evaluating the contributions of strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the healthcare setting: a modelling study . BMJ Open.

Xueting Qiu, Taj Azarian, J. Arjan G. M. de Visser, Pamela P. Martinez, Brian J. Arnold, Lindsay R. Grant, Jukka Corander, Christophe Fraser, Nicholas J. Croucher, Laura L. Hammitt, et al. (2020). Frequency-dependent selection can forecast evolution in Streptococcus pneumoniae . PLOS Biology.

Xueting Qiu, Felipe-Andrés Piedra, Steven M. Varga, Michael N. Teng, Vasanthi Avadhanula, Annette A. Machado, Do-Kyun Kim, James Hixson, Justin Bahl, Pedro A. Piedra (2020). Non-gradient and genotype-dependent patterns of RSV gene expression . PLOS ONE.

Xueting Qiu, Venkata R. Duvvuri, Justin Bahl(2019). Computational Approaches and Challenges to Developing Universal Influenza Vaccines . Vaccines. 7. (2). p. 45. {MDPI} {AG}

PREPRINT

Xueting Qiu, Lesley McGee, Laura L Hammitt, Lindsay R Grant, Katherine L O’Brien, William P Hanage, Marc Lipsitch (2023). Prediction of post-PCV13 pneumococcal evolution using invasive disease data enhanced by inverse-invasiveness weighting .

OTHER

Xueting Qiu, Joseph T. Hicks, Kimberly Friedman, Do-Kyun Kim, James E. Hixson, Scott Krauss, Richard J. Webby, Robert G. Webster, Justin Bahl(2021). Host diversity and behavior determine patterns of interspecies transmission and geographic diffusion of avian Influenza A subtypes among North American wild reservoir species . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Xueting Qiu, Emma Accorsi, Eva Rumpler, Lee Kennedy-Shaffer, Rebecca Kahn, Keya Joshi, Edward Goldstein, Mats J. Stensrud, Rene Niehus, Muge Cevik, et al. (2020). How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in epidemiologic studies of SARS-CoV-2 .

Xueting Qiu, Ali Ihsan Nergiz, Alberto Enrico Maraolo, Isaac I. Bogoch, Nicola Low, Muge Cevik(2020). Defining the role of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 transmission – a living systematic review . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Xueting Qiu, Joel C. Miller, Derek R. MacFadden, William P. Hanage(2020). Evaluating the contributions of strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the healthcare setting: a modelling study . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Xueting Qiu, Felipe-Andrés Piedra, Michael N. Teng, Vasanthi Avadhanula, Annette A. Machado, Do-Kyun Kim, James Hixson, Justin Bahl, Pedro A. Piedra(2019). Genotype-dependent and non-gradient patterns of RSV gene expression . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Xueting Qiu, Justin Bahl(2017). Structurally informed evolutionary models improve phylogenetic reconstruction for emerging, seasonal, and pandemic influenza viruses . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory