Sakshi Shinghal

Bioinformatician | Geneticist | Science Communicator | Scuba Diver

Hi! I'm Sakshi (she/her). I am a geneticist who spends her time trying to better understand what makes us who we are at the most fundamental level.

This site's a little overview of the different things I've worked on in both my professional and personal life.

Click the about me to learn more about my education, work and volunteering experiences

About Me

Articles

2 | AI/ML in Spatial Transcriptomics and Cell Segmentation

I talked to a scientist at Strand about using AI in Spatial Transcriptomics and Cell Segmentation

1 | Standardized Data Harmonization Workflows

AI is making our workflows faster & more efficient. Here Idiscuss how this works when looking at metadata curation with a bioinformatician

Spatial Proteomics

Note: This is a republication of a blog post I wrote for Strand Life Sciences, published on 8/1/2025. The original can be found here End...

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I enjoy writing about current topics in precision medicine and biotechnology in a way that's (hopefully) understandable by most. Here's a collection of some of the articles I've written so far!

Check out the rest of my posts!

Projects

Over the years I've had the opportunity to work on some really interesting projects involving genetics, bioinformatics and pure programming through my dissertations, lab classes and hackathons.

Click below to read about them

Long Read Analysis Pipeline in Snakemake

A. thaliana Gene Expression Visualisation Tool

VUS Identification through WGS of a S. cerevisiae cell

Check out the rest of my projects!

Podcast

During my first stint at Strand while the pandemic raged on; I developed, produced, and hosted a podcast on topics in precision medicine; with a special focus on COVID-19

I had the opportunity to interview thought leaders in various fields including cancer genomics, IBD and spatial transcriptomics. I also used this podcast to highlight the work of women in STEM and their journeys to becoming scientists.

All Videos

StrandExplains Mental Health Day

17:46

StrandExplains Spatial Transcriptomics (Episode 21)

08:48

StrandExplains Covid Treatments (Episode 19)

18:42

SKILLS & EXPERTISE

BIOLOGICAL

ACMG Variant Prioritisation ᐧ CRISPR ᐧ CHiP Hybridisation ᐧ Drosophila Phenotyping, Sexing and Management ᐧ ELISA ᐧ Gel Electrophoresis ᐧ HPLC ᐧ Long-Read Sequencing Analysis ᐧ Mammalian Cell Culturing and Testing ᐧ Microarray Analysis ᐧ PCR ᐧ SDS-PAGE ᐧ Short-Read Sequencing Analysis ᐧ WGS ᐧ WHIMS Trained (equivalent to COSHH

COMPUTATIONAL

Languages: Python ᐧ Java ᐧ Bash ᐧ LaTeX ᐧ Django ᐧ pandas ᐧ NumPy ᐧ matplotlib ᐧ React ᐧ Git ᐧ Anaconda (& Mamba) ᐧ Jupyter Notebooks

Bioinformatics Tools: SnakeMake ᐧ samtools ᐧ bcftools ᐧ RefSeq ᐧ UCSC Genome Browser ᐧ UniProt ᐧ Varsome ᐧ WDL ᐧ PacBio Secondary Analysis Tools ᐧ Galaxy ᐧ annovar ᐧ VEP ᐧ IGV

OTHER

Attention to Detail ᐧ Collaborative ᐧ Diligent ᐧ Creative Thinking ᐧ Problem Solving ᐧ Science Communication ᐧ Time Management