Amanda Araújo Serrão de Andrade

Amanda is a bioinformatician with over 10 years of experience in Computational Virology and data analysis. She holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, a Master's degree in Computational Modeling, and a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Sciences. Amanda joined the lab in September 2024 as a recipient of the VPR Match Funding Postdoctoral Fellowship and Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has a strong background in developing Artificial Intelligence methodologies for identifying novel viruses and is highly skilled in statistical analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Proficient in Shell Script, Python, C++, and R, she has extensive experience managing computational pipelines and developing R packages. Passionate about advancing the understanding of complex biological data, Amanda is always eager to take on new challenges in Computational Virology. In her free time, she enjoys coding personal projects, exploring new data science challenges, and cooking Brazilian cuisine.