Melanie Lou

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Member since: June 24, 2013

As a computational biologist (PhD), I can manage, analyze & explain your complicated data [Full profile here]. I also thrive on learning, peanut butter, salsa dancing & fitness!

Current address

Toronto, Ontario
Canada

Education

Ph.D. in Computational Biology
McMaster University
2007 — 2012

M.Sc. in Computational Biology
McMaster University
2005 — 2007

B.Sc. Hons. in Biology and Computer Science
York University
2000 — 2005

Experience

Computational NGS Intern
Genentech (a member of Roche)
2012 — 2012

Teaching Assistant: communicating complex info to non-experts
McMaster University
2005 — 2012

Database and User Interface Developer of genomic database
McMaster University
2005 — 2005

Skills

Programming: Perl, C, Java
Stats & Visuals: R, ESS, gnuplot
Database: MySQL, sqlite3
Big data: MapReduce, Python, PIG, EC on AWS
Languages: English, Mandarin, French

Activities

Scholarships: Five (provincial) academic and five national and international travel
Created Bioinformatics workshop for high school students
Created career seminar series for Biology grad students
Travelled abroad to study Mandarin and French in early 2013

Interests

Genomics
Phylogenetics
Evolution
Computational Biology
Fitness

References

Improving specimen identification: Informative DNA using a statistical Bayesian method (Doctorate Thesis)

The effect of sampling from subdivided populations on species identification with DNA barcodes using a Bayesian statistical approach

Assigning sequences to species in the absence of large interspecific differences

Studies of the Molecular Evolution of Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) (Master Thesis)

Fingerprint: visual depiction of variation in multiple sequence alignments

Other

Personal webpage: http://evol.mcmaster.ca/mlou

LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/melanielou

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mjjlou

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