Joana Carlevaro (Juna) is an experienced bioinformatics specialist with a strong background in RNA biology, gene expression regulation, genomics, and the analysis of non-coding regions (including long non-coding RNAs and transposable elements) in physiology and cancer. She holds a PhD in biomedicine (specialising in bioinformatics), and since 2019 she has been working as bioinformatics analyst providing support to researchers from different fields. 

Since 2025, she also works part-time as a bioinformatics trainer within the Bioinformatics Training Group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). 

Key expertise: 

Transcriptomics:  

  • RNA-seq and scRNA-seq data analysis and visualisation 
  • Isoform analysis/interpretation 
  • RNA-seq bulk deconvolution 

Epigenetics: 

  • Chip-seq, ATAC-seq and CutnTag data analysis and visualisation 
  • Development of pipelines 

Metagenomics 

  • Metagenome-assembled genomes analysis 

Functional genomics / multiomics 

  • CRISPR screening design and analysis  
  • RNA-seq/ATAC-seq single-cell analysis 
  • Integrative analysis of NGS data and publicly available omics datasets to study how genes and regulatory elements contribute to different biological processes. 

Others:  

  • Experimental design support (from technology to downstream analysis) 
  • Scientific events organisation 
  • Teaching and training