About me

Hi there! I am Carmen Navarro Luzón. I am currently a Bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher at Dr. Simon Elsässer’s lab at Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, since 2018.

I obtained my PhD at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence department at the University of Granada, Spain. During my PhD years, I also worked in other labs as a visiting researcher. First, at the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre & Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and later on at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain.

Research interests and projects

I am a Computational Biology researcher with a background in Computer Science and Engineering. I have always been interested both in Programming and Artificial Intelligence. During my PhD, my research interests shifted towards Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, where I discovered a fascinating field on which I could apply and broaden my Computer Science skills. As a researcher in such an interdisciplinary field, my interests span areas of knowledge such as Software Development, Machine Learning, Statistics, Genomics or Molecular Biology. I am also very interested in the process of research in itself. I believe that making data analysis processes reproducible and transparent makes our results more reliable and allows us to benefit from the help of our peers. In this sense, I am always learning about Reproducible Science and trying to translate what I learn about good software development practices to my own research.

During my PhD, I worked on several Bioinformatics projects, including motif-based computational approaches to find regulatory elements and modules (CisMiner, DiGSNP), prioritization methodologies on heterogeneous networks applied to biological entities (ProphTools, DrugNet), and the study of long non-coding RNAs.

Nowadays I work analysing genomics data coming from experiments like ChIP-seq (especially MINUTE-ChIP, a quantitative multiplexed method that leads to very interesting findings), RNA-seq, CUT&Tag. In parallel to this, I also develop tools and workflows to process and visualize NGS data. As an example, you can have a look at minute, a Snakemake workflow to process sequencing data from MINUTE-ChIP, and wigglescout, an R library to facilitate bigWig tracks visualization based on rtracklayer.

Publications

For a complete list of publications, you can have a look at my Google Scholar profile.

Contact

Feel free to contact me at: carmen.navarro [at] scilifelab [dot] se.