Julia Gustavsen is a bioinformatician at SOPHiA GENETICS, a young and growing company, where she analyzes next generation sequencing (NGS) data and interacts with colleagues and clients around the world. Her professional interests include bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, targeted gene studies, network analysis, data science and programming (R, python).
She received her PhD in biologicial oceanography from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, B.C., Canada) where she examined the temporal and spatial dynamics of aquatic viruses and microbes. Julia enjoys performing careful, rigorous analytical work, communicating this work and keeping an eye out for new analytical techniques and visualizations.
She moved to Switzerland in 2016 and is originally from New Brunswick, a small English/French bilingual province on the east coast of Canada. In her free time, Julia enjoys hiking, skiing, exploring Switzerland, and contributing to open-source projects.
Download my CVPhD in Biological Oceanography, 2016
University of British Columbia
BSc(Hons) in Biology, 2005
University of New Brunswick
BA in English, 2005
University of New Brunswick
2018 OpenCon switzerland - Code sharing and review in the open with rOpenSci Bern, Switzerland
2016 International Society for Microbial Ecology: Oral presentation: “Network analysis reveals the strong role of the environment in structuring microbial communities in a estuarine environment “ Poster presentation: Phylogenetic dynamics of marine viruses and their putative hosts” Montreal,PQ, Canada
2016 Viruses of microbes (EMBO Conference) : Poster presentations: “Temporal shifts in the phylogenetic structure of viral and host communities implies their central role as structuring elements in marine planktonic communities.” and “Simple and reproducible visualization of virus-host co-occurrence networks using RCy3 and Cytoscape.” Liverpool, United Kingdom
2014 Viruses of microbes (EMBO Conference): Poster presentation: “Describing the richness of the Picornavirales in coastal waters along a nutrient gradient using high-throughput sequencing.” ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.
2013 Aquatic Virus Workshop 7: Poster presentation: “Distribution and patchiness of Picornavirales in coastal waters.” University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA.
2013 Center for Microbial Diversity and Evolution/CIFAR Integrated Microbial Diversity: Poster presentation: “The high richness of aquatic RNA viral communities in coastal British Columbia revealed using amplicon deep sequencing.” Whistler, BC.
2012 Canadian Society for Microbiology Conference: Oral Presentation: “The uneven structure of RNA viral communities in coastal B.C. revealed using amplicon deep sequencing.” Vancouver, BC.
2012 Center for Microbial Diversity and Evolution: Poster presentation: “The uneven structure of aquatic RNA viral communities in coastal British Columbia revealed using deep amplicon sequencing.” Harrison Hot Springs, BC.
2012 CIFAR Integrated Microbial Diversity: Poster presentation: “The uneven structure of aquatic RNA viral communities in coastal British Columbia revealed using deep amplicon sequencing.” Quebec City, QC.
2011 UBC/ SFU/ UVic/ VIU Ecology and Evolution Retreat: Poster presentation: “RNA viral richness at Jericho Pier.” Brackendale, BC
2011 Center for Microbial Diversity and Evolution: Poster presentation: “Viral and bacterial abundances at Jericho Pier (Vancouver, BC) show variation over time and correlation with environmental parameters.” Harrison Hot Springs, BC.
2016 ECO-DAS Ecological Dissertations in the Aquatic Sciences - declined
2015 FENS and IBRO-PERC travel award for Advanced Scientific Programming in Python course
2014 BRITE International travel award, University of British Columbia
2011-2013 Four year Doctoral Scholarship, University of British Columbia
2009-2011 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Postgraduate Scholarship Doctoral (NSERC PGS-D)
2007-2009 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Postgraduate Scholarship Doctoral (NSERC PGS-M)
2003 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Undergraduate Student Research Awards (NSERC USRA)
2000-2004 Lord Beaverbrook Scholar, University of New Brunswick