(Contractor)
Education:
Ph.D., Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland
M.Sc., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
B.Sc., University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Biography
Dr. Angelina Angelova is a molecular and microbiologist turned bioinformatician and metagenomics analyst.
She earned her Ph.D. in Marine Microbial Ecology from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. She received her M.Sc. in Soil, Water, and Environmental Science and B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics from the University of Arizona. Angelina was involved in genomic library constructions, NGS and associated data processing, genomic assembly refinements, feature characterizations, and database curations. She also obtained experience with microbial cultivations, isolations, microcosms, stable isotope probing, and microbial dynamics. Angelina focused her Ph.D. and Post-Doctoral work on marine microbial community dynamics and functional capacity for biosynthesis and biodegradation of hydrocarbons.
As a metagenomics analyst at Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch (BCBB), Angelina utilizes her expertise to aid NIAID researchers in microbial community explorations, metagenomics data processing, community data mining, cross-study (meta) analyses, and the production of custom metagenomic data processing pipelines. Angelina has also been actively involved in the design, development, and maintenance of a publicly available free automated pipeline for metagenomic data processing called Whole metaGenome Sequencing Assembly-based pipeline (WGSA2), hosted on NIAID's cloud platform Nephele.