Sina Majidian
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Sina Majidian, Ph.D. |
(Rome, Italy. Apr 24, 2022)
About me
I started my journey in bioinformatics in 2015 when I chose the subject of my PhD thesis which was situated at the intersection of data science and genetics. Using in-depth mathematical concepts, I developed algorithms to assemble haplotypes from high-throughput DNA sequencing data. Working as an exchange PhD student in the plant department of Wageningen University, provided me the opportunity to develop a novel method and software for reconstructing the least fragmented haplotypes of polyploid species using 10X Genomics linked-read data. I spent wonderful three years of PostDoc in the Comparative Genomics lab at the University of Lausanne, led by Christophe Dessimoz and Natasha Glover where I developed orthology inference algorithms. Since May 2024, I have joined Ben Langmead's lab as a PostDoc working on genomic distances.
Experiences
(May 2024 – present) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University.
(May 2021 – Apr 2024) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
(Nov. 2019 -Jan. 2020) Remote intern, Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, USA.
(Oct. 2018 - Oct. 2019) Guest researcher, Bioinformatics group, Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands.
Education
(2015 – 2020) Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering- Signal processing, Iran University of Science & Technology,
(2013 - 2015) Master of Science in Electrical Engineering- Signal processing, Iran University of Science & Technology,
(2008 - 2013) Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran..
Research Interests
Computional biology & Bioinformatics
Comparative genomics
Genetic variations and haplotype assembly