Visiting Students
Laura Wratten
Laura is undertaking a 6-month internship in the Goke Lab developing Nextflow pipelines for the analysis of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data. She is completing a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) majoring in Bioinformatics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Research interests: Microbiomics (especially of humans and the built environment), third generation sequencing technologies, precision medicine, machine learning.What’s your favorite Singapore food? Mala! I also love ice cream in bread.
What’s your favorite travel destination? Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, has the most stunning scenery from Summer through Autumn. I highly recommend renting a car and hiking, mountain climbing and camping your way through the national parks!
Lab Alumni
Deniz Demircioglu (PhD)
Deniz is a Computer Science PhD student at the National University of Singapore doing his research project at GIS. Deniz graduated with a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Koç University in Istanbul (Turkey). He had his bachelor degree of Computer Science from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara (Turkey).
Research interests: Transcriptomics, alternative splicing, alternative promoters.
What’s your favorite Singapore food? Hokkien Prawn Mee
What’s your favorite travel destination? Angkor Wat in Cambodia is my favorite travel destination (so far). Incredible food, stunning nature, amazing architecture and a rich history all in one place.
Christine Eng
Christine is a postdoctoral fellow working on machine learning on cancer genomics and clinical data. She received her PhD in Bioinformatics from the National University of Singapore, where she has also earned her Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences.
Research interests: Machine learning, data mining
What’s your favourite Singapore food? Prata
What’s your favourite travel destination? Iceland. It has this desolate beauty that makes you feel like you’re in another world.
Jiayi Bao
I am a student from University of British Columbia, doing my internship in the Göke Lab in 2017. I am currently pursuing my BS in computer science and mathematics. It is extremely exciting for me to uncover and interpret the mysteries of life using bioinformatics.
Research interests: Machine learning
What’s your favorite Singapore food? Chilli Crab, best seafood dish!
What’s your favorite travel destination? Bali. Absolutely beautiful!!!
Engin Cukuroglu
Engin is a postdoctoral fellow working with large scale transcriptomics data. He received his PhD and MSc in Computational Sciences and Engineering, BSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Koc University in Istanbul. He did research internships at the Copenhagen University in Denmark and at the National Cancer Institute at Frederic.
Research interests: Data mining, big data, transcriptomics, transposable elements, cancer genomics, machine learning, protein-protein interactions, protein structures
What’s your favourite Singapore food? Hokkien mee
What’s your favourite travel destination? Japan! It’s a perfect blend of culture and nature in Asia.
Martin Kindermans
Martin is a French MSc student in executive engineering and biotechnology at MINES ParisTech Engineering School. He spent 6 months as R&D intern in solar energy forecasting in La Reunion and is currently completing his gap year with a 6-month internship in Jonathan Göke’s team.
Research interests: Machine learning, alternative splicing
Favourite Asian food: Phad Thai
Favourite travel destination: The Perhentian Islands in Malaysia are the perfect spot for snorkeling and discovering the amazing aquatic wildlife during a 3-day week-end.
Chloe Yap
I’m an Australian science-medicine student, interning in the Goke Lab for 6 months in 2016. I am fascinated by how we can extract so much information out of genomic data – what we are predisposed to, the effects of our environment, and even inferring the history of life itself! I enjoy trying to make my code look aesthetically pretty (to make up for its functional ugliness), nature walks, and you’ll often find me playing my cello, Charlie.
Favourite Singaporean food: Food-wise – it’s like choosing a favourite child, but for drinks – there’s no such things as too much teh halia.
Favourite travel destination: New Zealand’s South Island – the scenery is borderline ridiculous.
Florian Schmidt (visiting PhD student)
Lam-Ha Ly (Research Internship)
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