Sebastien Guizard
Computation Biology Support/Research Fellow
Contact details
Address
- Street
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The Roslin Institute
Easter Bush Campus
Midlothian - City
- Post code
- EH25 9RG
Background
After having put my first foot in Biology in high school, I put the second in Bioinformatics from my third year of study.
Driven by the search for answers, but above all by the search for new questions, I have enriched my knowledge over the years. First, in Biology, with a passage to the bench, in Computer science by learning to program, to tame Linux and finally in bioinformatics by deploying "whole genome" study projects.
After a master degree in Bioinformatics, I worked for one year as an engineer on cereal paleogenomics before starting my PhD. It focused in the organization of the chicken genome through the annotation of repeated sequences.
After, I worked for 4 years as Bioinformatician for a French international plant breeder. This position has been the opportunity to do some genome assembly, variant discovery and to build an SNP microarray for a tetraploid plant.
Today, I joined Mick Watson's group as Postdoctoral Research Fellow. I'm involved into the Gene-Switch project where I'm in charge of the annotation of chicken and pig genome by RNA Isoseq long-read sequencing.