Claudia Chica

Claudia Chica is a Senior Bioinformatician at the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics HUB of Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, where she has been working since October 2015. Her research focuses on computational analysis of epigenomic and transcriptomic data, with particular expertise in chromatin profiling techniques including ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, and RNA-seq.

Her research interests span epigenomics, chromatin analysis, single-cell data analysis, and bioinformatics tool development. She has made significant contributions to understanding chromatin dynamics in immune memory, bacterial pathogenesis, and plant genome evolution. Her methodological expertise includes statistical modeling for high-throughput sequencing data and integration of multi-omics datasets.

Dr. Chica's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on epigenomic mechanisms underlying immune memory in bronchial epithelial cells, bacterial virulence evolution, and development of bioinformatics tools like ePeak and SCHNAPPs for epigenomic and single-cell data analysis. Her work bridges computational methodologies with biological discovery across diverse systems from human immunology to plant genomics.

She has been actively involved in teaching and training researchers, having co-organized multiple bioinformatics courses at Institut Pasteur, including the Bioinformatics program for PhD students and specialized courses on high-throughput sequencing data analysis, comparative genomics, and functional omics.