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Lorena Pantano
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S2E4 Behind the "We'll Be in Touch" Emails: ArkeaBio's Lauren and Kaye on How to Get Hired in Bioinformatics
What does it really take to land a bioinformatics role? In this episode, we sit down with Lauren Fitch, the Head of Computational Biology at ArkeaBio and Kaye Guerard-Hatziioannou, HR Business…
S2E3 Claude Code for Bioinformatics
Claude code has taken over the tech world like a storm. But how good is Claude code when it comes to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology? In this episode of A Coffee with Compbio, Saba and…
S2E2 Hacking your way into computational biology
Hackathons are not just for coders anymore — computational biologists have made it their own with data, models, and insights! Hackathons can be a great way to understand the trends in your field,…
S2E1 12 New Year Resolutions For Computational Biologists
New year, new episode, new comp-bio goals and new hosts. But first, we wish you a very Happy New Year! Most new year's resolutions fail due to lack of clarity, so to make it easier, we begin our…
S1E12 A Comp-bio holiday calendar: 12 tools and tips to make this holiday season a fantastic one!
As our first season comes to an end, we would like to wish all of our listeners a very happy holiday season. But wait! We also have some presents for our listeners. In this episode of “A Coffee with…
S1E11 Collaboration Survival Guide for CompBio
What really happens when a wet lab scientist and a computational biologist sit down to plan an experiment? Spoiler: it's not always smooth sailing. In this episode of 'A Coffee with Compbio,' Lorena…
S1E10 A coffee with Saranya Canchi - Fail, learn, repeat, the bioinformatics way!
In this episode of A Coffee with Comp Bio, hosts Alex Bartlett and Lorena Pantano sit down with Saranya Canchi, a computational biologist specializing in neuroscience. Together, they explore how to…
S1E9 (Dry) Lab Notebooks: The Importance of Recordkeeping in CompBio
Grab your coffee and join us for another episode of Coffee with CompBio! This time, we kick things off with Amulya, a PhD student at Boston University and co-chair of Boston Women in Bioinformatics,…
S1E8 The Spatial Transcriptomics Toolkit: Memory, Clustering, and Deconvolution
In this episode, Alex and Lorena tackle the computational challenges of spatial transcriptomics. Learn how BPCells can help you work with millions of cells without needing terabytes of RAM, discover…
S1E7 A coffee with Katie Hughes - First hand experience on transitioning to a Product Manager role
Alex Barlett and Lorena Pantano welcome Katie Hughes, their first guest, to discuss her career transition from bioinformatics to product management. Katie shares her journey from studying genetics,…
S1E6 R You Doing It Right? Modern Best Practices in R
Alex and I dig into the tricks and tips that'll actually make your R code work better. We're talking about ditching those old habits we all picked up and switching to code that works better in 2025.…
S1E5 Fast, Private, and Publish-Ready Spatial Transcriptomics App (Without Losing Your Mind)
In this episode, we journey through the real-life challenges of building interactive single cell spatial data visualizations for large projects. Lorena shares her recent adventure turning mountains…
S1E4 R Markdown: Because RNA-seq Code Shouldn't Be Wild-Type
Alex and Lorena discuss a large bulk RNA-seq project that yielded lasting changes to their group’s everyday bioinformatics practices via the creation of parameterized R Markdown code templates. In…
S1E3 The Thousand-Dollar Alignment
In this episode of A Coffee with CompBio, Lorena and Alex share the twists and turns of realizing their methylation data wasn’t what it seemed. From puzzlingly low mapping rates to unexpected cloud…
S1E2 Nine Samples and Zero Cells: A Week in the Life of Single-Cell Analysis
In our first episode, Alex and Lorena dive into the messy reality of processing single-cell RNA-seq data. What started as a simple QC project turned into a week-long journey across compute…
S1E1 About Us
In the introductory episode, Lorena and Alex introduce themselves and share how they got started in computational biology. They talk about their career paths, what drew them to bioinformatics, and…
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