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Martin Sebastijan Šestak

Martin Sebastijan Šestak

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    BigData Chief Systems Engineer at Privredna banka Zagreb d. d.

  • Education

    • First Gymnasium, Varaždin, Croatia

      1998 - 2002
      5.0

      Activities and Societies: - involved in Biology group studying birds and fish

    • University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu

      2008 - 2013
      Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Evolutionary genetics

      Activities and Societies: Bius: Freshwater and Fish sections PhD thesis "Phylostratigraphic analysis of the macroevolutionary history of organ systems in animals"Discovered stepwise evolution of nervous and sensory systems from common chordate ancestor to modern vertebrates:- chordate ancestor had complex eyes with lens, brain with 2 parts (forebrain and hindbrain)- ancestor of tunicates and vertebrates had olfactory, lateral line and statoacustic sensory systems- dorsal part of forebrain (center of associative functions and memory) is… Show more PhD thesis "Phylostratigraphic analysis of the macroevolutionary history of organ systems in animals"Discovered stepwise evolution of nervous and sensory systems from common chordate ancestor to modern vertebrates:- chordate ancestor had complex eyes with lens, brain with 2 parts (forebrain and hindbrain)- ancestor of tunicates and vertebrates had olfactory, lateral line and statoacustic sensory systems- dorsal part of forebrain (center of associative functions and memory) is vertebrate innovation together with adenohypophysis and neural crest derived sensory systems Show less

    • University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu

      2002 - 2007
      Master of Science (MSc) Molecular Biology

      Activities and Societies: BIUS - Biology Students Association Sections: Biology of freshwater habitats and Fish biology Main topics: molecular biology, biochemistry and bioinformaticsDiploma thesis: Phylostratigraphic analysis of the Ciona intestinalis genome (Ascidiacea, Tunicata)

  • Experience

    • Ruđer Bošković Institute

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
      Research Volunteer

      Working on the diploma thesis: evolution of early chordates and genomics of tunicate Ciona intestinalis

    • Ruđer Bošković Institute

      Mar 2008 - May 2017

      - Creating novel analytical pipelines using analytical databases columnar DeepSQL and ClickHouse (git repository at https://github.com/msestak)- my work with DeepSQL has been featured on datanami.com (site specialized in big data solutions) https://www.datanami.com/2015/11/24/deepsql-kicks-evolutionary-genetic-research-into-high-gear/.- Analyzing next-generation sequencing datasets involved in bacterial biofilm formation- Testing research hypotheses using R - Supervising master students doing master thesis in our lab Show less Working on my PhD thesis "Phylostratigraphic analysis of the macroevolutionary history of organ systems in animals"- Learning to work in a Linux command line in different Linux distributions (CentOS 5, 6 and 7, Rocks cluster and Ubuntu 14)- Learning to program in Perl, MySQL and R- Running high-throughput computing on clusters (Isabella cluster at tannat.srce.hr), grid (CRO-NGI grid at cro-ngi.hr) and cloud (EGI FedCloud at appdb.egi.hr)- Promoting my research at 6 international conferences and institutes Show less

      • Postdoctoral Researcher

        Jul 2013 - May 2017

      • PHD Student

        Mar 2008 - Jul 2013

    • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

      Jan 2009 - Jan 2009
      Visiting Researcher

      - Learning how to analyze datasets in next generation sequencing and bioinformatics- Working on a project: evolution of novel genes in genomes

    • Privredna banka Zagreb d. d.

      Jun 2017 - now
      Chief Systems Engineer

      Installation and administration of- RedHat Linux 7/8- Cloudera Hadoop clusters (and related components like Kafka)- highly available PostgresSQL and MySQL databases- ElasticSearch, Redis and Cassandra clusters- automated through Ansible

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Bioinformatics and Statistics for Next Generation Sequencing

      Exaltum

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Martin Sebastijan Šestak
      “Željko Trgovčević” award for best young scientists in 2015 Croatian Genetic Society 2016 - award for best young scientists (under 35) in 2015- given for my publication "Phylostratigraphic profiles in zebrafish uncover chordate origins of the vertebrate brain"
    • Awarded to Martin Sebastijan Šestak
      Poster first prize at Scientific meetings of the third kind 2011 “Ruđer Bošković” Institute 2011 - my poster was selected among more than 100 PhD students from all disciplines (including biology, chemistry, physics and informatics) working at the “Ruđer Bošković” Institute at that time
    • Awarded to Martin Sebastijan Šestak
      A-Class Scholarship for Excellent Students of University of Zagreb University of Zagreb 2003 - awarded for being in top 10% of students on entrance exam - Faculty of Science - Biology
    • Awarded to Martin Sebastijan Šestak
      Second prize (Ecology) at the Croatian meeting and competition of young biologists 2002 Ministry of Science and Education 2002 - study awarded: “Changes in the composition of fish populations of river Bednja as an ecological problem”- supervisor: Vlatka Kranjčec, prof., First Gymnasium Varaždin