Blaise Li

I obtained a PhD in phylogeny in 2008 at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, then worked as a post-doc in Torino (Italy, 2009 – 2011) and Faro (Portugal, 2011 – 2013) where I worked on methodological aspects of phylogeny.

In 2013, I have been hired as research engineer in bioinformatics at the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier where I wrote tools to analyze high-throughput sequencing data, especially small RNA-seq. This is also the kind of job I do now at Institut Pasteur since 2016.

I enjoy programming in Python, I’m interested in evolutionary biology, and I find teaching the UNIX command-line and other practical computer skills a rewarding activity. I’m also particularly involved in a course introducing PhD students (and sometimes other staff at Institut Pasteur) to R programming and basic descriptive statistics. The course support is available on-line and can hopefully be studied autonomously: https://hub-courses.pages.pasteur.fr/R_pasteur_phd/First_steps_RStudio.html

One of my main activities is the development of automated data analysis workflows.

See also my page at the bioinformatics and biostatistics hub.

My published work is available here: http://www.normalesup.org/~bli/useful.html

• 2016 – present:  Ingénieur de recherche, Institut Pasteur (Paris)
• 2013 – 2016: Ingénieur de recherche, Institut de Génétique Humaine (CNRS, Montpellier)
• 2011 – 2013: Bolsista de pós-doutorado, Centro de Ciências do Mar (Universidade do Algarve, Portugal)
• 2009 – 2011: Assegnista di ricerca, Dipartimento di Fisica (Politecnico di Torino, Italie)
• 2007 – 2008: Middle-school biology teacher (Issy-les-Moulineaux)
• 2004 – 2007: Allocataire de recherche (Université Paris VI) Moniteur (Université Versailles – St-Quentin)
• 2000 – 2004: Civil-servant student, ENS (Paris)