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Jong Leong Centre for Biomedical Research University of Victoria, PO Box 3020 STN CSC, Victoria, B.C. V8W 3N5 Canada Phone: 250-472-4072 Fax: 250-472-4075 jong ^at^ uvic ^dot^ ca

I am a Bioinformatician in the Koop lab in the Centre for Biomedical Research at University of Victoria.

Interests

• Atlantic salmon, sea lice
• Computational biology
• Molecular Evolution
• Genome duplications
• ESTs
• Sequence/Genome assembly
• Sequence annotation
• Data-mining
• Biochemistry

Bioinformatics Education/Experience

• University of Victoria, Centre for Biomedical Research
  
• University of Salzburg, Center for Molecular Engineering
  
• Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Kyoto, Japan
  
• McGill University - B.Sc. Biochemistry
  

Publications

von Schalburg KR, Leong J, Cooper GA, Robb A, Beetz-Sargent MR, Lieph R, Holt RA, Moore R, Ewart KV, Driedzic WR, ten Hallers BF, Zhu B, de Jong PJ, Davidson WS, and Koop BF. Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) genomic library and EST resources. Mar Biotechnol (NY). 2008 Sep-Oct;10(5):487-91. DOI:10.1007/s10126-008-9089-6 | Wright JJ, Lubieniecki KP, Park JW, Ng SH, Devlin RH, Leong J, Koop BF, and Davidson WS. Sixteen type 1 polymorphic microsatellite markers from Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) expressed sequence tags. Anim Genet. 2008 Feb;39(1):84-5. DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2052.2007.01666.x | Yazawa R, Yasuike M, Leong J, von Schalburg KR, Cooper GA, Beetz-Sargent M, Robb A, Davidson WS, Jones SR, and Koop BF. EST and mitochondrial DNA sequences support a distinct Pacific form of salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis. Mar Biotechnol (NY). 2008 Nov-Dec;10(6):741-9. DOI:10.1007/s10126-008-9112-y | Koop BF, von Schalburg KR, Leong J, Walker N, Lieph R, Cooper GA, Robb A, Beetz-Sargent M, Holt RA, Moore R, Brahmbhatt S, Rosner J, Rexroad CE 3rd, McGowan CR, and Davidson WS. A salmonid EST genomic study: genes, duplications, phylogeny and microarrays. BMC Genomics. 2008 Nov 17;9:545. DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-9-545 |