Akito Shima

Intern Bioinformatician

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

As of September 2025, I started my Master’s at the Max Planck Institute of Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany.

Intern Bioinformatician, Cellular Genomics Informatics

I am a bioinformatician with a background in working on the metagenomics of prokaryotic endosymbionts and the genomics of corals. At CellGenIT, I focused on developing pipelines using Python, R, Nextflow, and container technologies (Docker, Singularity), as well as pre-processing single-cell data from various platforms. During my internship, I created an R package for scsajr, made contributions to the new version release of nf-scsajr and NicheCompass, and integrated the nf-core style modules and subworkflows of NicheCompass into the CellGenIT repository.

My timeline

• Joined Cellular Genomics Informatics, Wellcome Sanger Institute

• BSc in Biology - Kyushu University, Japan

• Research Intern - Evolution, Cell Biology, and Symbiosis Unit, OIST, Japan