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Full Stack Engineer/Bioinformatics consultant

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing
Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization
Work Experience

Owner | Full Stack and Bioinformatics Engineer

Omixer

2019 - Present

Head of Bioinformatics

Genesis Healthcare Co.

April 2020 - March 2021

Senior Chief Scientist

Genesis Healthcare Co.

March 2019 - March 2020

Post-doctoral scientist

Tokyo Institute of Technology

August 2017 - March 2019

Research Associate

KU Leuven

December 2014 - June 2017

Research Assistant

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

December 2009 - November 2014

Master thesis project

EMBL

March 2009 - August 2009

Summer intern

EMBL

June 2008 - August 2008

Education

PhD in Bioinformatics

Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the KU Leuven, Belgium

December 2009 - June 2016

Master's degree, Bioniformatics

University of Montpellier

September 2007 - August 2009

Bachelor's degree, Bioinformatics

Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-II)

September 2004 - June 2007

Certifications
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Youssef Darzi, Mireia Valles-Colomer, Gwen Falony, Ettje F. Tigchelaar, Jun Wang, Raul Y. Tito, Carmen Schiweck, Alexander Kurilshikov, Marie Joossens, Cisca Wijmenga, et al.(2019). The neuroactive potential of the human gut microbiota in quality of life and depression . Nature Microbiology. 4. (4). p. 623--632. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Youssef Darzi, Ivica Letunic, Peer Bork, Takuji Yamada(2018). iPath3.0: interactive pathways explorer v3 . Nucleic Acids Research. 46. (W1). p. W510--W513. Oxford University Press ({OUP})
Vandeputte D, Kathagen G, D'hoe K, Vieira-Silva S, Valles-Colomer M, Sabino J, Wang J, Tito RY, De Commer L, Darzi Y, et al.(2017). Quantitative microbiome profiling links gut community variation to microbial load . Nature.
Youssef Darzi, Sara Vieira-Silva, Gwen Falony, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Roberto Garcia Yunta, Shujiro Okuda, Doris Vandeputte, Mireia Valles-Colomer, Falk Hildebrand, Samuel Chaffron, et al.(2016). Species–function relationships shape ecological properties of the human gut microbiome . Nature Microbiology. 1. (8). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}
Youssef Darzi, Paul J Planet, Yizu Jiao, Mizuho Hasegawa, Henry Moon, Gabriel Núñez, Naohiro Inohara, Jeroen Raes(2016). The Genomic Sequence of the Oral Pathobiont Strain NI1060 Reveals Unique Strategies for Bacterial Competition and Pathogenicity . PLOS ONE. 11. (7). p. e0158866. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})
(2016). Meta-omics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research: Applications, Challenges, and Guidelines . Journal of Crohn's & colitis.
Youssef Darzi, Gwen Falony, Sara Vieira-Silva, Jeroen Raes(2016). Towards biome-specific analysis of meta-omics data . The ISME Journal. 10. (5). p. 1025--1028. Springer Nature
(2016). Towards biome-specific analysis of meta-omics data . The ISME Journal.
et al.(2016). Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean . Nature.
et al.(2016). Population-level analysis of gut microbiome variation . Science (New York, N.Y.).
et al.(2016). Species-function relationships shape ecological properties of the human gut microbiome . Nature microbiology.
(2016). The Genomic Sequence of the Oral Pathobiont Strain NI1060 Reveals Unique Strategies for Bacterial Competition and Pathogenicity . PloS one.
et al.(2015). Ocean plankton. Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome . Science (New York, N.Y.).
et al.(2013). Induction of bone loss by pathobiont-mediated Nod1 signaling in the oral cavity . Cell host & microbe.
et al.(2012). Integrated metagenomics/metaproteomics reveals human host-microbiota signatures of Crohn's disease . PloS one.