I'm Silvia, a Research Support Technician (PTA) at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio) in Valencia, Spain , working within the BCBHub project (CSIC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Connection). I hold a PhD in Microbial Ecology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), specializing in bioinformatics, microbial community assembly, and computational biology.
- Maintaining, benchmarking, and validating bioinformatic tools on the BCBHub portal, including usage analytics & ticketing-based user support 🛠️
- Advising CSIC researchers on FAIR code practices, workflow managers (Nextflow, Snakemake), and containerization (Apptainer, Conda, Docker) 📦
- Creating technical training materials and documentation for the scientific community 📖
- Studying microbial community assembly through identification of phylogenetic core groups, functional annotation, and metabolic modeling (FBA).
- Working with HPC environments and workflow optimization using SLURM.
- Programming for automated lab platforms (Opentrons OT-2).
- Collaborating with national and international research teams (Spain 🇪🇸, Norway 🇳🇴, Japan 🇯🇵).
- Supporting researchers in metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data processing.
- Development, optimization, and integration of open-source bioinformatic tools 🔧
- Applying bioinformatics and computational tools to advance microbial ecology and systems biology research 🧬
- 📧 stalaveramarcos@protonmail.com
- 🗣️ You can talk to me in Spanish, English, French, or Japanese, and I can speak a bit of Norwegian.
dilgrowth
This package includes command line scripts and standalone R/c++ functions for simulating growth-dilution experiments. These simulations include neutral drift and optionally functional groups with different group fitness.
correlation_graphs
Based on Goyal et al.'s (2018) method for inferring statistically significant correlations between OTUs.
SBML_to_graph
A few rudimentary functions to generate metabolite graphs from SBML models. Uses ReFramed and one CarveMe function.
custom_ot2_utils
Opentrons OT2 robot functions or custom labware definitions that we feel other people might find useful.
TFM
Este repositorio recoge los scripts desarrollados para automatizar los análisis correspondientes al Trabajo de Fin de Máster "Modelización metabólica de comunidades microbianas estables crecidas con fuentes de carbono y energía únicas y simples" (Máster en Bioinformática y Biología Computacional, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).
wordle-jp
Japanese adaptation of Josh Wardle's Wordle.
Last update: September 2026

