Esha Joshi

Esha Joshi has a diverse range of work experience in the field of bioinformatics. Esha is currently working as a Bioinformatics Engineer at Seqera Labs, where they are part of the Scientific Development Team. Prior to this, they worked as a Bioinformatics Engineer at 54gene.

Esha has also held positions at Public Health Ontario as a Bioinformatics Analyst, where they led the bioinformatics analysis for COVID-19 genomics. Esha was responsible for providing enhanced analytics on sequencing data and Variants of Concern (VoC), as well as assisting in the development of methods for tracking emerging mutations and variants of significance to public health.

During their time at the University of Toronto, Esha served as a Masters Student at the Centre for Applied Genomics. Esha assisted with the development of visual analytics software for clinical variant interpretation from genomic datasets and also created and defined pipelines for assessing the performance of different variant callers.

Additionally, Esha worked as a Bioinformatics Research Assistant under Dr. Arneet Saltzman, where they supported data analysis for RNA-seq data from C. elegans. Esha developed optimized pipelines for analysis and used various statistical approaches to analyze and visualize datasets.

Esha also has experience as a Teaching Assistant for Introductory Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Toronto, where they facilitated laboratory/tutorial sections and taught various techniques such as bacterial isolation and transformation.

Furthermore, Esha has worked as a Software Developer at DNAstack, a Genomic Data Analyst at Mount Sinai Health System, and an Undergraduate Research Assistant at St. Michael's Hospital.

Overall, Esha Joshi has gained expertise in bioinformatics analysis, pipeline development, software development, genomic data analysis, and teaching in the field of bioinformatics.

Esha Joshi has pursued their education at the University of Toronto. Esha obtained an Honours Bachelor of Science degree with a focus on Genetics & Biotechnology and Cells & Systems Biology. Subsequently, they pursued a Master of Health Science degree at the same institution, specializing in Genome Sciences/Genomics. The exact years of their education are not specified.