Jesko Wagner

Experience

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  Aperture Study Association

  Jul 2016 - Jul 2017

  President of Study Association

  Aperture is the official MSP study association. The goal of Aperture is to make the academic year as fun, interesting and educational as possible for the MSP students. Throughout the year, Aperture organizes a number of events, such as voluntary lectures, study trips, and board game nights.As the president of Aperture, I was in charge of day-to-day supervision and management of the board of the association. Next to this, I was responsible for the communication and representation of the association towards external parties, which left me with excellent professional communication skills. The budgeting and funding of the association were also part of my function, in close collaboration with the Aperture treasurer.Next to this, I was in charge of the organization of the study trip to Heidelberg. Visits to the various Max Planck Institutes in Heidelberg as well as the European Molecular Biology Laboratory were organized for this inter-disciplinary scientific study trip. Show less

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  Maastricht UMC+

  Jun 2017 - Jun 2017

  Research Intern

  Internship for university research project. Research was conducted into the effects of knockdown of microRNAs on obesity and cardiovascular health.Worked together in a group of 6 students.Obtained grade: 8.3 (A)

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  Universiteit Maastricht

  Jan 2018 - Feb 2018

  Research Intern

  Internship for university research project. Research was conducted in the field of Computational Biology using MatLab. Search strategy optimization was performed using a genetic algorithm.Research was performed in a group of 8 students.Obtained grade: 8.5 (A)

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  DKFZ Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum

  Feb 2018 - Jun 2018

  Bachelor Thesis

  Bachelor thesis research performed full-time at the German Cancer Research Center under kind supervision of Prof. Dr. Claudia Scholl. Research aimed at determining oncogenic potential of KRAS-like mutations in human cells and was conducted in vitro in BS1 and BS2 laboratories.Obtained grade: 9.1 (A+)

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  Maastricht UMC+

  Sept 2018 - Jan 2019

  Research Intern

  Internship for strengthening of bioanalytical skills. Research was focused on bioinformatical pipeline development with R and bash. Main focus was on single-cell transcriptomics, methylation and accessibility profiling. Previously worked on improving efficiency of microRNA alignments.

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  SciLifeLab

  Feb 2019 - Aug 2019

  Research Intern

  Bioinformatics project in the Crosetto group revolving around double-strand breaks, their involvement in genome fragility and effects on transcription in various biological contexts.

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  UMC Utrecht

  Dec 2019 - Nov 2020

  Research Intern

  Research project with Jeroen de Ridder on detection of genome-wide structural-variant signatures caused by gene deficiencies using machine-learning. Designed and implemented R/Python pipeline (using snakemake), elucidating mechanism and impact of CDK12 deficiency.Obtained grade: 8.6 (A+)

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  VIB

  Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

  Literature Intern

  Literature internship with the Stein Aerts group, reviewing transcription factor motif discovery and enrichment, particularly in the single-cell era.

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  EMBL

  Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

  Research Internship

  Research project with group of Jan Korbel to assess functional impact of structural variations in single cells.

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  MRC Human Genetics Unit at the University of Edinburgh

  Sept 2021 - now

  PHD Candidate

  PhD candidate of the MRC four-year International PhD programme in Human Genetics, Genomics and Disease. Researching how to improve morphological profiling to find better drugs faster. Building on rigorous statistics of high-throughput single-cell data.

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  Digital Research Services - University of Edinburgh

  May 2024 - now

  Digital Research Services Ambassador

  Unlocking insights from single-cell RNA-sequencing data by developing a lightweight web app.