cv
A brief version of my resume.
Basics
| Name | Camila Castillo-Vilcahuaman |
| Label | Bioinformatician | Programmer | Microbial Ecologist |
| camila.castillo.v@uni-jena.de | |
| Url | https://reymonera.github.io |
| Summary | Bioinformatician born and raised in Peru. Interested in microbial ecology, evolution and the bioinformatic tools for the study of said topics. |
Work
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2025.09 - Still... -
2025.06 - Still... -
2023.06 - 2024.05 SEO Implementation Specialist
ZenBusiness
Using WordPress skills, I implemented changes on WordPress pages according to SEO analysis done by the team.
- Raised visits to 25%
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2022.02 - 2023.02 Junior Web Developer
Subastop Co.
Implemented new web applications for an e-commerce site, using PHP, Laravel and Python.
- Got promoted to Junior Web Developer from Intern
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2018.01 - 2022.02 Research Assistant
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Assisted in the Bioinformatics of several projects inside the Microbial Genomics Lab.
- Published 3 papers
Volunteer
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2025.04 - Still... Lima, Peru
Director of Data Analysis Committee
Sociedad Peruana de Bioinformática
Director of the Data Analysis group, that evaluates the impact of the society in peruvian research.
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2019.05 - 2022.05 Lima, Peru
Lead Organizer
RSG Peru
Founder and President of the Peruvian Regional Group of the International Society of Computational Biology - Student Council.
- First organization from Peru associated with the ISCB-SC.
- Founding Group of the Sociedad Peruana de Bioinformática
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Lima, Peru
Education
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2025.09 - Still... Jena, Germany
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2020.03 - 2025.12 Lima, Peru
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2013.03 - 2017.12 Lima, Peru
Publications
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2025.07.15 -
2025.05.14 MOBHunter: a data integration platform for identification and classification of mobile genetic elements in microbial genomes
Nucleic Acids Research
A web-server tool that gave me a lot of positions.
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2021.04.22 From the Andes to the desert: 16S rRNA metabarcoding characterization of aquatic bacterial communities in the Rimac river, the main source of water for Lima, Peru
PLoS One
Showing off my metabarcoding data analysis ability.
Skills
| Biology | |
| Microbiology | |
| Bacteriology | |
| Evolution |
| Informatics | |
| Python | |
| R | |
| Bash scripting |
Languages
| Spanish | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| German | |
| Intermediate |
| French | |
| Intermediate |
| Quechua | |
| Basic |
Interests
| Biology | |
| Microbial Ecology | |
| Microbial Evolution | |
| Bioinformatics | |
| Bioloical Modelling | |
| Systems Biology | |
| Microbial Evolution | |
| Microbial Taxonomy and Systematics |
| Informatics | |
| Software Engineering | |
| Bioinformatic Packages | |
| Genomic Analysis |