Tania Kurbessoian
Technical Researcher at Centre for Applied Ecological Remediation
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTania Kurbessoian is a Microbiologist and Bioinformatics specialist with a Ph.D. and eight years of experience applying NGS, genome assembly and annotation, and custom pipeline development to fungal evolution and environmental microbiology. She has led large-scale genomic analyses—most notably a bioinformatics pipeline for over 300 Histoplasma clinical isolates—and translated that expertise into applied work on built-environment microbiology and Legionella case investigations at Clark Seif Clark. Comfortable across wet-lab and computational domains, she pairs skills in MALDI-TOF MS, PCR, enzyme assays and aseptic technique with Bash scripting, metagenomic binning, and R-based amplicon analysis. Tania’s work includes applied remediation projects isolating extremophilic melanized fungi from contaminated brownfields and contributions to planetary protection with NASA JPL, demonstrating a knack for high-stakes, real-world microbial problem solving. She also co-founded the International Congress of Armenian Mycologists and has a track record of teaching and mentoring, securing grants to build omics capacity in underserved research communities.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology, Biology General, Master of Science (M.S.), Microbiology, Biology General at California State University, NorthridgeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology, General, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology, General at University of California, Riverside
English, Armenian, Russian, python
Github Skills (30)
genome-annotation10
comparative-genomics9
genomics-visualization6
sequencing6
genome-assembly6
illumina5
next-generation-sequencing5
css4
dna-sequences4
react4
discovery3
assembler3
genome3
genomics3
depth3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tania-k/KaKs_Orthofinder
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 2 PRs in 14 days
Citrus-HLB-Micro/Genome_Fungal_Culture
Jan 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 9 months
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