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Andrej Benjak

Andrej Benjak

Senior computational biologists at Universitätsspital Basel

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Positions

Senior computational biologists Mar 2022 -

Visceral Surgery and Precision Medicine, Universitätsspital Basel

Cancer research.

Senior scientist, computational genomics Mar 2019 - Feb 2022

Oncogenomics, University of Bern

Cancer genomics.

Postdoctoral position Sep 2012 - Sep 2018

Cole Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

Bioinformatics, bacterial genomics, high throughput sequencing, de novo genome assembly, gene annotation, comparative genomics, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq.

Postdoctoral position May 2011 - Oct 2011

AG Bucher, University of Cologne

Bioinformatics, RNA-seq

Postdoctoral position Feb 2009 - Nov 2010

Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics

Bioinformatics, 454 sequencing, de novo genome assembly

Education

University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2005 - 2008

Field of study: Plant genomics
Degree: Doctor rerum naturalium technicarum

Thesis: Identification and Characterisation of Transposable Elements in Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.)

Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Croatia 1997 - 2003

Field of study: Agronomy
Degree: Dipl. Ing. (Master of Engineering) of Agronomy

Base Study: Plant production.
Study specialization: Pomology, Viticulture and Oenology.
Research conducted: DNA profiling of grapevine cultivars.

Skills

Bioinformatics, genomics, sequence analysis, genome assembly, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, agronomy, plant biology, DNA markers, PCR.

Fellowships

EMBO Short Term Fellowship (ASTF 115-07) 2008 - 2008

Leonardo Da Vinci short term fellowship (Vienna, Austria) 2008 - 2008

Awards

Dean Award for top-5 best students of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb 2000

Languages

English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Croatian (native)

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