Bioinformatics PhD student at Stockholm University
Stockholm Area, Sweden
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- Bioinformatics PhD student at Stockholm University
- Teaching Assistant for Genome Informatics Course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Developer at BioPerl Project
- Member at St. Louis BMW Club
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- Senior Analyst at Washington University Genome Sequencing Center
- Graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine
- Research Technician at University of Chicago
- Education
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- Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- Thomas Jefferson School
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Dave Messina’s Summary
I am a computational biologist. I analyze large datasets and write software to make that faster and easier to do. I contribute to the BioPerl open-source project (which has made *my* job much easier), and I am particularly interested in helping biologists and computer scientists to work together -- I'm fluent in both disciplines and "translate" between the two.
Dave Messina’s Specialties:
bioinformatics programming, genomic research, human genetics, sequence analysis, microarray analysis, web programming
Dave Messina’s Experience
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Bioinformatics PhD student
Stockholm University
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)
I work in Erik Sonnhammer's lab at the Stockholm Bioinformatics Center in Stockholm, Sweden.
I have recently finished up some work involving biological sequence data from different sources all over the world which can be brought together on your desktop using a system called DAS. Our lab is both a consumer of DAS data -- I've built on an existing Java program to create a DAS viewer -- and a publisher -- I adapted some protein structure prediction programs to now be available to anyone as DAS web services.
My current project involves looking at viral samples which have been isolated from some patients and then DNA-sequenced. The samples actually contain many different kinds of viruses, and so the task is to analyze that population as a whole using a set of techniques called metagenomics. -
Teaching Assistant for Genome Informatics Course
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(Non-Profit; Research industry)
October 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
I help to teach a two-week intensive course in bioinformatics run by Simon Prochnik, Suzi Lewis, Jim Tisdall, and founded by Lincoln Stein.
I took the course the year before, actually, and I highly recommend it for people with some programming experience who want to learn hands-on from top people in the field. -
Developer
BioPerl Project
(Non-Profit; Biotechnology industry)
October 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)
BioPerl is a set of software libraries which keeps biologists from having to spend so much time writing new code in order to answer their research questions. BioPerl still has a pretty steep learning curve for most people, so I'm trying to help make it easier to use.
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Member
St. Louis BMW Club
(Biotechnology industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
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Senior Analyst
Washington University Genome Sequencing Center
(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Biotechnology industry)
September 2004 — July 2007 (2 years 11 months)
Most of my work was to make sure that the genome sequences we produced were as good as they could be before we released them to the public. I also was involved in evaluating next-generation sequencing machines (454, Solexa) and figuring out efficient ways to process the huge amounts of data they produce.
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Graduate student
Washington University School of Medicine
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)
September 1998 — January 2004 (5 years 5 months)
I spent three years collecting, classifying, and designing a microarray of nearly the complete set of human transcription factor genes. Technology has progressed, and now it's possible to do much of that with five minutes and a few keystrokes.
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Research Technician
University of Chicago
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
My first real "wet-lab" job, where I learned all of the molecular biology techniques. I helped to do a linkage study of an inherited form of muscular dystrophy that also affects the electrical system of the heart. We identified the part of the human genome that contains the mutation which causes the disease.
Dave Messina’s Education
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Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
MS , Genetics , 1998 — 2004
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University of Illinois at Chicago
BA , Biology , 1994 — 1996
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Thomas Jefferson School
1987 — 1992
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Dave Messina’s Interests:
filmmaking, tennis, and driving fast in old BMWs
Dave Messina’s Groups:
the St Louis Perl Mongers, the BMW Car Club of America
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