Nicolás D. Franco-Sierra

Assistant Researcher (Conservation Genetics) at Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
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  • Spanish Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
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Credentials

  • Principles of Computing
    Coursera
    Aug, 2014
    - Sep, 2024
  • Computational Molecular Evolution
    Coursera
    Feb, 2014
    - Sep, 2024
  • An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
    Coursera
    Dec, 2013
    - Sep, 2024

Experience

  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
    • Colombia
    • Environmental Services
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Assistant Researcher (Conservation Genetics)
      • Mar 2019 - Present
  • Universidad EAFIT
    • Colombia
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Young Researcher
      • Feb 2018 - Feb 2019

      Fellowship for funding (monthly stipend during 2018) participation of young scientists in research projects associated to research groups approved by National System of Science, Technology and Innovation - granted by Colombian Administrative Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS). Advisor: Dr. Javier Correa Álvarez - Universidad EAFIT

    • Research Assistant (master's student)
      • Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

      Structuration of analytical pipelines for automation of common bioinformatic tasks in phylogenetic analysis and molecular evolution.Student coordinator of the Computational Biology Research Seedbed. Tutoring undergraduate students and research interns in bioinformatics.

    • Research Assistant
      • Dec 2015 - Dec 2016

      Transcriptomics and protein-protein interaction network analyses applied to gene design for plant genetic engineering.Bacterial transcriptome assembly tasks and differential expression analyses from RNA-seq data.Computational analysis of MinION DNA sequencing data (Oxford Nanopore Technologies).

    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      • Jul 2015 - Nov 2015

      Support department's projects in bioinformatic analyses using High Performance Computing.Writing reports and documentation of research activities and procedures.

    • Research Intern
      • Jan 2015 - Jun 2015

      Support postgraduate projects in bioinformatic data analysis, including phylogenetic analysis, bacterial and mitochondrial genomes annotation and specific gene sequences analysis.Implementation of computational pipelines to analyze genomic data and perform phylogenetic analysis.

    • Undergraduate Research Assistant
      • Jan 2014 - Nov 2014

      Genome assembly of Plant Growth Promoting bacterial strains from Next-Generation Sequencing data (Illumina). Use of multiple genome alignment methods and comparative genomics tasks for bacterial genomes. Genome assembly of Plant Growth Promoting bacterial strains from Next-Generation Sequencing data (Illumina). Use of multiple genome alignment methods and comparative genomics tasks for bacterial genomes.

Education

  • Universidad EAFIT
    Master of Earth Science, Biogeography
    2017 - 2018
  • Universidad EAFIT
    Process Engineer, Bioprocess
    2011 - 2015

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