Izaskun Mallona

Scientist

Zurich, Switzerland

About

Science. Software engineering, statistics, genetics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, single-cell technologies, benchmarking. Troubleshooting. Methods development and data analysis - mainly but not only R, python, bash, PostgreSQL, linked data. GNU/Linux system administration.

Experience

  • University of Zurich (8 yrs 4 mos)
    • Research Scientist
      May 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

      With Mark D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics).

    • Research Scientist
      Oct 2021 - Apr 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      With Mark D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics) and Magdalini Polymenidou (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine)

    • Postdoctoral Research Scientist
      Apr 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

      With Mark D. Robinson (Statistical Bioinformatics). Developed methods scRNA-seq and collaborated with researchers from different fields (neuroscience, epigenomics, development)

  • Instructor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

    Supervision of master's thesis. Bioinformatics and Biostatistics MSc degree, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Universitat de Barcelona joint program

  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP)
    Jan 2013 - Mar 2018 · 5 yrs 3 mos

    With Miguel A. Peinado. Developed tools to integrate and visualize high throughput cancer epigenomics data. Analyzed DNA co-methylation in colon cancer. Evaluated epigenetic changes in repetitive elements during cell differentiation

  • Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (4 yrs 11 mos)
    • Doctoral Student
      Jul 2008 - Jul 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Plant developmental genetics, hybrid bioinformatics and wet lab research. Advisors: Marcos Egea-Cortines, Julia Weiss

    • Laboratory Technician
      Sep 2007 - Jun 2008 · 10 mos

      Built expression vectors for the International Tomato Genome Sequencing Project. Supervisor: Marcos Egea-Cortines