Team – Göke Lab

Jonathan Göke (PI)

Dr Jonathan Göke is Assistant Director and Senior Group Leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics/Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Dr Göke has received scholarships from the Max Planck Society and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he was selected as GIS Fellow (2014-2016) and A*STAR Fellow (2024-2027). In 2024, Dr Göke received the Young Scientist Award by the Singapore National Academy of Science and the National Research Foundation “for his pioneering work in developing computational methods for long read RNA sequencing data that have enabled the profiling of RNA transcription and modifications at unprecedented resolution and accuracy.”

His current work focuses on the development of computational methods for third generation long read RNA-Sequencing.

Research interests: Third Generation Transcriptomics, alternative splicing, lncRNAs, cancer genomics, machine learning (see here for an overview).
What’s your favorite Singapore food? Laksa
What’s your favorite travel destination? The tea plantations in Cameron Highlands in Malaysia are my favorite getaway for a long weekend. Great hiking in the rainforest and hot steamboat during cold evenings in the mountains.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Chen Ying

Chen Ying is a postdoctoral fellow working on statistical genomics and transcriptomics using Oxford Nanopore sequencing technologies. Chen Ying has a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the National University of Singapore, and a PhD from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at NUS.

Research interests: Biostatistics, data analytics, statistical genomics and cancer research
What’s your favourite Singapore food? Chicken rice
What’s your favourite travel destination? Chongqing and Chengdu. Both are the paradise of food, especially spicy food. You can never stop eating in these two places.

Naruemon Pratanwanich

Ploy is a postdoctoral fellow working on machine learning for Nanopore sequencing data. Since 2017, she has been a lecturer in Faculty of Science at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand after receiving her PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, UK. During her PhD studies, she also joined an internship program at EBI, UK.

Research interests: Machine learning, Bayesian deep learning, Probabilistic modelling.
What’s your favourite Singapore food? Of course, chicken rice
What’s your favourite travel destination? South Africa

Andre Sim

Andre Sim is a postdoctoral fellow working on using long-read sequencing for transcriptomics. He received a Bachelor’s with Honours at Massey University (New Zealand), and a PhD from Phillips Universität (Germany), through the Max Planck Graduate School.

Research interests: Long Read Sequencing, Transcriptomics, Alternate Splicing
What’s your favourite Singapore food? Mala Hotpot
What’s your favourite travel destination? Osaka, Japan. Amazing food, so many lights, and so close to many other great destinations like Kyoto and Nara.
Favourite Singapore thing to do? Eat! After coming from Germany (don’t tell Jonathan I said this), I was blown away by the amazing variety of tasty (and cheap!) food Singapore has to offer.

PhD students

Christopher Hendra

Christopher is a PhD student at the Institute of Data Science in the National University of Singapore (NUS) working on both at NUS (with Alexandre Thiery) and at GIS. Christopher graduated in 2018 from NUS, with a B.Sc degree in Applied Mathematics and minor in Computer Science.

Research interests: Transcriptomics, machine learning, data mining, statistics
What’s your favorite Singapore food? Char Siew Rice
What’s your favorite travel destination? Sumba Island (East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia). It’s a natural beauty with a strange feel of peace and isolation. These are often forgotten in the hustle and bustle of our metropolitan lives

Yuk Kei Wan

Yuk Kei is a PhD student at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS) doing her research project at GIS. Yuk Kei graduated with an M.S. in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University (USA) and a B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Michigan State University (USA).

Research interests:Transcriptomics, RNA biology, machine learning
What’s your favorite Singapore food? Hakka noodle
What’s your favorite Singapore destination? The Singapore Botanic Gardens! I get to see so many dogs, monitor lizards, and chickens at the Botanic Gardens every weekend! I saw an otter family twice too!

Lab Alumni

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