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Research experience 2012 – present Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mihaela Zavolan 2012 Statistical Genomics Unit, Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mark Robinson Project title: "Development of tools and methods for the analysis of ribosomal profiling data in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae." 2007 – 2012 Pharmacogenomics Unit, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Supervision: Prof. Dr. André Gerber, Prof. Dr. Michael Detmar Project title: “Tools and strategies for the unraveling of post-transcriptional gene regulatory networks” 2006 – 2007 Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Supervision: Prof. Dr. Stanley Brul, Dr. Hans van der Spek Project title: “Status, complications and future prospects of highly active antiretroviral therapy” 2006 Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore Supervision: Prof. Dr. Vinay Tergaonkar Project title: “Characterization of a putative IKK2 in Danio Rerio” 2004 – 2005 Department of Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Supervision: Prof. Dr. Jurgen Seppen Project titles: ”Lentiviral gene transfer of chemically inducible hepatocyte growth factor receptor” and “Liver re-targeting of lentiviral particles” 2004 Institute of Biological Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany Supervision: Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra, Dr. habil. Ingo Korndörfer Project title: ”Production and characterization of the enzymatically active domain of the endolysine Ply500 isolated from Listeria monocytogenes bacteriophage A 500” 2003 & 2004 Traineeships Research and Development at Micromet, Inc., Munich, Germany Acquired skills Transcriptomics (microarray) and proteomics (mass spectrometry) techniques Standard biochemical, molecular and cell biological techniques (cell culturing, cloning, Western/Northern blotting, immunopurification, qPCR, FACS, immunofluorescence, in vitro enzymatic and binding assays) Used model systems: human cell lines, zebrafish, E. coli, P. pastoris, lentiviral vectors Profound knowledge of statistical and bioinformatics-based analytical methods (intermediate to advanced knowledge of Perl) Highly developed scientific writing, data preparation, presentation and publication skills