Sander Timmer

Master student in bioinformatics, who is and has been involved in several different research topics.

I like to answer biological questions using the latest techniques and large datasets from various sources.

Sander Timmer’s Specialties:

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

Sander Timmer’s Experience

PhD student

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

(Non-Profit; Research industry)

October 2009 — Present (4 months)
PhD student

EBI

(Non-Profit; Research industry)

October 2009 — Present (4 months)
PhD student

EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

(Non-Profit; Biotechnology industry)

October 2009 — Present (4 months)
Owner

Rijschoolvergelijker V.o.F.

(Information Services industry)

June 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

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

Delivering web technologies to driving schools in the Netherlands.
Trainee 1000 genomes project

EBI

(Non-Profit; Research industry)

May 2009 — September 2009 (5 months)

Working with Next-generation sequencing data from the 1000 genomes project, more specific on analyzing indels position in the genome and evolutionary constraints in specific regions.
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.