Linelle Abueg

Hello! I am a bioinformatician-turned-sysadmin who enjoys using genomic resources and tools to answer evolutionary questions, plus helping scientists conduct similar (or completely different!) analyses on their own.

I have had experience conducting such analyses for population genomic questions related to neutral population structure as well as potential signatures of adaptive evolution. I have extensive experience with next-generation and third-generation sequencing, particularly targeted exome sequencing and ddRAD approaches for the former, and PacBio and Oxford NanoPore long reads for the latter. I’ve worked exclusively in non-model organisms, so I am passionate about making resources available for researchers studying non-model systems, a goal I contributed to in my previous work as a Bioinformatics Support Specialist at the Vertebrate Genome Lab. This previous role also involved running a local instance of the Galaxy platform, giving me my first exposure to systems administration.

I followed my curiosity about the sysadmin world to my current role as a Scientific Systems Administrator in Rockefeller University’s HPC Resource Center. I have contributed extensively to the center’s documentation/outreach efforts, including presenting to labs and consulting with individuals. This role affords me the opportunity to interact with researchers studying the gamut of biomedical reserach, and I find joy in getting to enable them with the knowledge to use our center’s infrastructure to get their science done efficiently.