Aaron Pfennig
Angestellt, Graduate Research Assistant, Lachance Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
Student, Quantitative Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten
Über mich
I am currently a PhD student in the Lachance Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology (https://popgen.gatech.edu). My research focus is on the admixture of modern humans with archaic hominins. I approach this from a theoretical perspective as well as an empirical one. Before my work in the lab, I graduated with a Master's degree in Bioinformatics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. During my Master's, I was a student in the Borodovsky group (http://exon.gatech.edu/GeneMark) and developed an ab-initio algorithm for the annotation of phage genomes with multiple genetic codes.
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Berufserfahrung von Aaron Pfennig
Bis heute 3 Jahre und 3 Monate, seit März 2021
Graduate Research Assistant
Lachance Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Created a model of introgression that effectively accounts for hybrid fitness effects caused by trans interactions - Estimated allele ages of variants that were newly associated with prostate cancer in African-American men
3 Monate, Jan. 2021 - März 2021
Graduate Research Assistant
Torres Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Retrieved proteomic datasets from a public database and analyzed the detected post-translational modifications (PTMs) with regard to whether PTM dynamics are indicative of a biological function
5 Monate, Aug. 2020 - Dez. 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Georgia Institute of Technology
Biol 1107L, Introduction to Biological Principles Laboratory
1 Jahr und 1 Monat, Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2020
Master Student
Borodovsky Group, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Developed an ab-initio algorithm for the identification of a type of genetic code in a prokaryotic DNA sequence - Implemented the algorithm in a tool called Genetic Code Detector using Python - Identified more instances of crAssphages in a metagenomic database - Extensively characterized the crAssphages concerning their genomic features using comparative genomics approaches
4 Monate, Apr. 2019 - Juli 2019
Intern
Noyes Lab, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
- Performed taxonomic profiling of whole-genome sequence data from a cow’s udder using DIAMOND, MetaPhlan2, and MEGAN
4 Monate, März 2019 - Juni 2019
Intern
Rahmannlab, Genominformatik
- Identified potential drug targets for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) based on a mass spectrometric protein dataset - Classified samples in the dataset using machine learning, i.e., Random Forest Classifier - Performed pathway analysis and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) using DAVID
7 Monate, Aug. 2018 - Feb. 2019
Bachelor Student
Baumbach Lab, University of Southern Denmark
- Developed a sophisticated peak detection method for breath gas data (MCC/IMS) based on a deep learning approach, using the tensorflow and keras package in Python. - Benched marked the peak detection method against existing methods, such as PEAX or the watershed algorithm, and showed that it consistently performs better
7 Monate, Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2018
Intern
Baumbach Lab, Univeristy of Southern Denmark
- Established an automated pipeline for the analysis of breath gas data (MCC/IMS) in Python - Data preprocessing such denoising and smoothing using different filters, i.e., Wavelet transformation - Training of a classifier, i.e., Random Forest Classifier or Support Vector Machine - Classification of unknown samples
Ausbildung von Aaron Pfennig
1 Monat, Juli 2021 - Juli 2021
Statistical Genetics
University of Washington
Scholarship for Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics - Pathway and Network Analysis for Omics Data - Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for Genetics
Bis heute 3 Jahre und 10 Monate, seit Aug. 2020
Quantitative Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
1 Jahr, Aug. 2019 - Juli 2020
Bioinformatics
Georgia Institute of Technology
2 Monate, Juli 2018 - Aug. 2018
Data Science
Ukrainian Catholic University
DAAD Stipendium, Lviv Data Science Summer School
5 Monate, Sep. 2016 - Jan. 2017
Biomedical Sciences
National Chiao Tung University
Auslandssemester
1 Monat, Aug. 2016 - Aug. 2016
Entrepreneurship
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Fulbright Stipendium, FH Summer Institute
4 Jahre, März 2015 - Feb. 2019
Biomedizinische Wissenschaften
Fachhochschule Reutlingen
Biomaterialien und deren Wechselwirkungen mit dem biologischen System
1 Jahr, Okt. 2013 - Sep. 2014
Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege
Marienkrankenhaus Schwerte
Sprachen
Deutsch
Muttersprache
Englisch
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