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Danang Crysnanto
Interested in the bioinformatics of the large-scale whole-genome sequencing data. Current work first to propose the transition from linear to more representative, graph-based reference genome for unbiased sequence variant analysis.
Education
PhD Candidate in Computational Animal Genomics
Zurich Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
Current - 2018
- Research project: Bovine PAN-genomic graphs
- Skills learned: Graph analytics, Bioinformatics pipeline management
Msc in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis
Edinburgh United Kingdom
The University of Edinburgh
2017 - 2016
- Thesis: Widespread gene duplication in Drosophila RNAi pathways
- Skills learned: Pylogenetic analysis, Bayesian statistics
- The best master thesis with distinction (average marks > 85)
Selected Publications
Accurate sequence variant genotyping in cattle using variation-aware genome graphs
Genetic Selection Evolution
N/A
2019
- Published within the first year of PhD
- First work of using graphs for sequence variant discovery in livestock
Widespread gene duplication and adaptive evolution in the RNA-interference pathways of the Drosophila obscura group
BMC Evolutionary Biology
N/A
2019
- Published from Master’s work
- Identified massive gene amplifications from analysis >30 Drosophila genome
Selected awards
Sir Kenneth Mather Memorial Prize
N/A
The Genetics Society
2018
- Rewards a BSc, MSc or PhD student of any UK University or Research Institution who has shown outstanding performance in the area of population genomics or quantitative genetics.
The Douglas Falconer Prize
N/A
The University of Edinburgh
2017
- Awarded as the best Master’s thesis in the area of Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis
Bronze Medalist 21st International Biology Olympiad (IBO)
Changwon South Korea
International Biology Olympiad
2010
- International biology competition for high school students from 60 countries, who are winners of their respective National Biology Olympiad.
Selected conference and talks
Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference – Selected Speaker
San Diego USA
N/A
2020
- Talk title: Mapping sequencing read to bovine genome graph
Computational PANgenomics – Selected Participant
Oeiras Portugal
Gulbekian Training Program in Bioinformatics
2019
- Training with mini-hackaton on graph genomics
Genome Informatics and Livestock Genomics Conference – Selected Speaker
Cambridge United Kingdom
Wellcome Genome Cambridge
2018
- Talk title: Assessment of the graph-based genotyping with bovine short-read data
Population Genetics Group Conference – Award winner Speaker
Oxford United Kingdom
The Genetics Society
2018
- Talk title:Widespread gene duplication in Drosophila immune pathways
Selected training
Nextflow for reproducible genomics
Tubingen Germany
Quantitative Biology Center (QBIC)
2019
- Workshop on implementation of reproducible genomics
R packages
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Zurich
2019
- Training on creating R packages using devtools
Basic Tensorflow
Lausanne Switzerland
Google Zurich
2019
- Training on basic machine learning in Swiss Applied Machine Learning Days
Docker for reproducible computational research
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Bern
2018
- Training on reproducibility genomic analysis using Docker
Bioinformatics of Long-Range Sequencing
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
University of Zurich
2018
- Training on long-read (Pacbio and Nanopore) data analysis
Python for Life Science
Edinburgh United Kingdom
Edinburgh Genomics
2017
- Using Python data science stack (e.g., Pandas, Jupyter) for genomics data analysis
High performance computing for genomics application
Scientific IT Services
ETH Zurich
2017
- Training on best practice of using ETH big data cluster for genomic analysis
GATK Best Practice for Genomic Data Analysis
Broad Institute
Harvard MA USA
2017
- Training on the best practice variant discovery with Genomic analysis toolkit (GATK)