Sander Timmer

Current

Trainee 1000 genomes project at EBI
Owner at Rijschoolvergelijker V.o.F.

Past

Internship Molecular Diagnostics at Philips Research
Software developer at Dalicon
Webdeveloper at ControlXS V.o.F.

Internship Bioinformatics at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Internship Bioinformatics at Vertis

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Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen

Connections

39 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

My Company

Sander Timmer’s Summary

Master student in bioinformatics, which is and has been involved in several different research fields. The thing I like the most is analyzing and combining large datasets trying to increase my knowledge (and hopefully the worlds knowledge) in biology.

Sander Timmer’s Specialties:

General bioinformatics,proteomics, genomics, biomarker discovery, high throughput data, web technology, next-generation sequencing, indel/SNPs.

Sander Timmer’s Experience

Trainee 1000 genomes project

EBI

(Non-Profit; Research industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Owner

Rijschoolvergelijker V.o.F.

(Information Services industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Providing a comparison platform for driving schools with the possibility to add personal experiences.

Delivering web technologies to driving schools in the Netherlands.
Internship Molecular Diagnostics

Philips Research

(Public Company; PHG; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

September 2008 — April 2009 (8 months)

For my master thesis working on the biomarker discovery team using proteomics (iTRAQ). Studied the influence of a novel combination of sample separation. Studied the differences between protein identification tool Mascot and Protein Pilot. Searched for prostate cancer related biomarkers.
Software developer

Dalicon

(Biotechnology industry)

2006 — September 2008 (2 years)

Technical support and development on several projects using techniques like:
- Create Database Procedure (in MSSQL and MySQL)
- implementing innovation web technologies (ASP & PHP & Perl)
Webdeveloper

ControlXS V.o.F.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Developed modules for the in house written CMS including:
- iDEAL payments
- social activities (forum)
Internship Bioinformatics

Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

(Non-Profit; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

September 2006 — February 2007 (6 months)

For the Nijmegen Proteomics Facility (part of The Laboratory of Pediatrics and Neurology) I created a central proteomics analysis system that can store the data, deal with redundancy problem, can quantify (emPAI) and give insight on the proteomics data.

A proteomics analysis on CAPD patients

Keywords:
- Proteomics
- emPAI
- Statistical proteomics methods

all was build in Perl and MySQL
Internship Bioinformatics

Vertis

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — January 2006 (5 months)

Creating a Oracle RDF based pubmed textminer for finding relations between health and food. Using the latest Oracle 10g2 technologies and Java.

Keywords:
- Textmining
- Datamining
- Oracle
- RDF

Sander Timmer’s Education

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Master , Bioinformatics , 2007 — 2009

Minor project: The influence of protein dynamics on structural alignments (supervised by Walter Pirovano, Anton Feensta and Jaap Heringa)

Optional master course:

Advanced Bioinformatics (12 ECTS)
Academic Medical Center and University of Amsterdam
by Prof. Dr. A.H.C. van Kampen and Dr. Ir. P.D. Moerland.
Central in this course is the statistical program R and statistical research on cancer data and genomic data.

Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry course 2008
Utrecht University (Netherlands Proteomics Centre)
by Prof. Dr. Albert Heck
22-09-2008 - 26-09-2008

Activities and Societies:

Advanced Bioinformatica course @ AMC, Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry course @ Netherlands Proteomics Centre
Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen

Bachelor , Bioinformatics , 2002 — 2007

Activities and Societies:

Support at Open Days, giving speeches for HAVO/VWO students at high schools, part of the student accreditation team.