Kristofer Davie

Head of Single Cell Bioinformatics Expertise Unit (CBD) at VIB

Leuven, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

I am a bioinformatician with over 9 years of experience in the analysis of a wide variety of next generation sequencing data types, with a strong focus on the analysis of single cell data (sc/snRNA-seq, scATAC-seq, Spatial technologies), as well as 5 years of wet lab experience. I am heavily invested in helping others and making single cell data available to as many researchers as possible, to this end I currently support the 14 labs in the VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research with single cell analysis and training, as well as develop tools such as SCope and VSN-Pipelines for the wider community. I also have passion for computer hardware and technology in general, and am always excited to tinker with and/or build something new.

Experience

  • Head of Single Cell Bioinformatics Expertise Unit (CNL) at VIB
    Jan 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

    * Providing single cell and spatial bioinformatics support/service to the 14 labs in the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Neuroscience * Training new bioinformaticians within the department * Applying for access to and/or deposition of data to public repositories (EGA, dbGap, GEO, SRA) * Development of the single cell viewer SCope * Organisation and running the Bioinformatics and AI seminars at KU Leuven * Administration of the LeuvenBioinformatics Discord server * Managing a dedicated partition of CPU and GPU nodes at the Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) for the Biomed groups * Maintaining and installing a bioinformatics software suite at the VSC

  • PhD Student at KU Leuven
    Aug 2014 - Jun 2021 · 6 yrs 11 mos

  • Volunteer Medical Lab Assistant at James Cook University Hospital
    May 2011 - Jun 2011 · 2 mos

  • Credit Card Customer Services at Santander UK
    Aug 2010 - Nov 2010 · 4 mos