Yuyu Liu
"Science is organized knowledge.” - Herbert Spencer
33 years old
Paris (75001) France
Professional Status
Student
Available
About Me
Holding a master degree in biology with a major in bioinformatics, I am looking for a PhD position with a research topic related to cancer.
Voluntary internship
Signal Processing Department - Tampere University of Technology
August 2015
to December 2015
Internship
Tampere
Finland
- Prediction of cancer patient's pathological stage by using TCGA's RNASeq gene expression level data, with random forest method and neural network deep learning method
- Method development for finding the optimal topology of the neural network deep learning method such as the model's prediction results will be more accurate than the random forest method
- Integration of copy number data into the prediction model
Master thesis internship
Institute of Molecular Life Sciences - University of Zurich
February 2015
to June 2015
Full-time
Zurich
Switzerland
- Research for methods discovering the copy number alteration (CNA) patterns in cancer array-based data
- Integration of Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) and CNV map data in the method development
- Understand the limits of using array-based data for copy number alteration analysis
- Analysis on genes and pathways affected by CNAs
Devlopmental biology laboratory internship
CNRS(French National Centre for Scientific Research) UMR(Mixed Research Unit) 7622, Paris, France
June 2013
to August 2013
Internship
Paris
France
- C.elegans cultivation and breeding
- Immunofluorescent slide staining (IF)
- Image processing (with ImageJ software)
- Macro development for repeating image processing
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- Publication: Sperm-inherited organelle clearance in C.elegans relies on LC3-dependent autophagosome targeting to the pericentrosomal area (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25922527)
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Master of Biological Sciences, major in BioInformatics and Modeling
UPMC (University of Pierre and Marie Curie), Paris, France
September 2014
to June 2015
- Biological networks and systems biology
- Statistics for data classification and data mining in genetics
- Phylogeny and comparative genetics : mathematics and algorithms
- From genetic data to evolutionary genetics (fasq, BAM, SAM file analysis)
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Master of Biological Sciences, major in BioInformatics and Modeling
UPMC (University of Pierre and Marie Curie), Paris, France
September 2013
to June 2014
- Advanced programming with C language and Python (implementation: k-means, Needleman-Wunsch, Smith-Waterman)
- Algorithms and programming for trees and graphs in bioinformatics (UPGMA, NJ, Sankoff, Fitch, NNI, etc.)
- Algorithms and programming for sequences (nucleic acids and amino acids: Markov chain, Viterbi, Gibbs sampling, CLUSTAL, MUSCLE)
- Statistics and pattern recognition
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Bachelor degree obtained in June 2013
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- Molecular biology and Generics
- Cell and developmental biology
- Immunology
- Mice developmental biology
- Biochemistry
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- Ability to observe, analyse and synthsize
- Ability to work with different languages
- Autonomous, self-motivated, able to work with a team
- Dynamique, organised, adaptable, quick learning
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R language
Advanced
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Python
Advanced
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C language
Advanced
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C++ (basics)
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Perl (basics)
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Java (basics)
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SQL (basics)
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css (basics)
Intermediate
- Operating systems : MS Windows, UNIX/LINUX, MacOS
- FastX toolkit, IGV
- J-express, TMEV, kaléidagraph
- ImageJ, Prism, XPPAUT
- GNU Octave, Matlab (basics), Scilab (basics), Matthematica (basics)
- MS Office, Photoshop
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Chinese : bilingual
Expert
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French : bilingual
Expert
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English : fluent (TOEFL score: 102)
Advanced
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Japanese : advanced (reading), conversational (speaking), basic (writing)
Good
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Spanish : basic
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