Paula Andrea Martinez
Paula Andrea Martinez
Academic history:
MSc: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. Chalmers University of Technology 2012 (Sweden)
BSc: Computer Sciences, software development. University NUR 2008 (Bolivia)
Posts held:
- 2012 - present PhD candidate - Applied Bioinformatics to crops - The University of Queensland, Brisbane - Australia
Studying the Genomic diversity of the species Brassica Juncea and one of the progenitor species Brassica nigra
- 2012 Master Thesis project - Mathematical Statics Dept - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg - Sweden.
Exploratory metagenomic analysis of antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial communities
- 2011 Internship - The Salgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg - Sweden.
Statistical Analysis of Gene expression using NimbleGen Microarrays data. A comparison between a polluted site and a reference site
- 2008 - 2009 IT Dept. Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza, Santa Cruz - Bolivia.
I am very interested in biological questions that can be answered with the analysis of genomic data. I gained an engineering degree in Computer Sciences from University NUR back in my home country. I worked at the NGO FAN (Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza) for 2 years in the IT and Web Dept. Then I moved to Sweden in 2009 to study Bioinformatics, where I got involved in 2 projects with different biological backgrounds that helped me to put hands on into the bioinformatics world. I enjoy to be a bioinformatician, I feel bioinformatics is having a great impact in science and I am glad to be part of it.
At the moment I am a PhD candidate at the applied bioinformatics group under the supervision of Prof. David Edwards, and Asoc. Prof. Jacqueline Batley. Everyone in the group is part of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG Brisbane node). My foucus is on studying the genomic diversity of the species Brassica juncea. I work with next generation sequencing data for SNP discovery, skim genotyping by sequencing, gene loss, and the assembly of the B. nigra genome.
Contact:
University of Queensland
St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia
Ph: +61 07 334 67085
Email: paula.martinez@uq.net.au
