Sofiya Shevchenko (Fed)

Sofiya is a bioinformaticist in the Genome Editing Program, led by Dr. Samantha Maragh. Sofiya is primarily involved in targeted and whole genome NGS analysis for NIST Genome Editing Consortium projects, as well as data visualization, and bioinformatic support for the Genome Editing team in the area of genome editing control assays.

Research Interests

• Genome editing measurement validation
• Bioinformatic analysis
• Data visualization
• Python
• Bioinformatic standards

Publications

Shevchenko SG, Radey M, Tchesnokova V, Kisiela D, Sokurenko EV. Escherichia coli Clonobiome: Assessing the Strain Diversity in Feces and Urine by Deep Amplicon Sequencing. Appl Environ Microbiol, 2019, 85(23):e01866-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01866-19

Kisiela DI, Radey M, Paul S, Porter S, Polukhina K, Tchesnokova V, Shevchenko S, Chan D, Aziz M, Johnson TJ, Price LB, Johnson JR, Sokurenko EV. Inactivation of Transcriptional Regulators during Within-Household Evolution of Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol, 2017, 199(13):e00036-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00036-17

Yutin N, Shevchenko S, Kapitonov V, Krupovic M, Koonin EV. A novel group of diverse Polinton-like viruses discovered by metagenome analysis. BMC Biol, 2015, 13:95. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-015-0207-4

Krupovic M, Zhi N, Li J, Hu G, Koonin EV, Wong S, Shevchenko S, Zhao K, Young NS. Multiple layers of chimerism in a single-stranded DNA virus discovered by deep sequencing. Genome Biol Evol, 2015, 7(4):993-1001. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv034