My name is Kristina Gagalova, and I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

💬 I speak English, Italian and Bulgarian fluently
👩🏻‍💻 Pronouns: She/her
🔬 I have an analytical mind and love exploring topics from adjacent scientific fields
🤝 I thrive on collaboration and building bridges between research disciplines

👩‍🔬 I identify as a bioinformatics scientist, entrepreneur and research software engineer
🌿 I'm involved in both academia and industry, especially in the intersection of genomics and AI
🚀 I'm currently a Nextflow Ambassador and a certified Carpentries Instructor

📍 I'm based at Curtin University and actively contribute to projects supported by the Analytics for the Australian Grains Industry (AAGI)

• 🌾 Plant and fungal pathogen pangenomics
• 🌱 Applications of bioinformatics to plant breeding
• 🔬 Gene family evolution and genome annotations, especially for enzymes and secondary metabolites in plants
• 🧬 Structural bioinformatics, including protein–protein interactions and intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs)
• 🧪 Biochemical protein pathways
• 🗃️ Bioinformatics databases and graph systems
• 🤖 Machine learning and AI applied to biological sequences, with a strong passion for large language models (LLMs)

• For my GitHub repositories, please post an issue in the corresponding repo
• For Nextflow-related queries, post on Stack Overflow or the Seqera forum so others can benefit from the discussion
• For all other inquiries, feel free to email me at [email protected]

Let's collaborate and make science more open, powerful, and impactful 🌍✨