My name is Yuka Takemon and I'm a PhD candidate at Canada's Micheal Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia π¨π¦
- π³οΈβπ They/Them/Theirs
- π Japanese π―π΅ living in Canada
- π Current PhD candidate in the Genome Science + Technology program at the University of British Columbia
- π§π»βπ« Certified Carpentries and RStudio/Posit instructor and lesson maintainer for Intro to R for Genomics
- π Alumni of the University of Maine (PSM in Bioinformatics) and College of the Atlantic (BA in Human Ecology) πΊπΈ
- π Previously at The Jackson Lab as a research assistant studying transcriptomic and proteomic impacts of chronic kidney diseases and renal aging π«π§πΌ
- 𧬠Using genetic interactions to understand gene function and identify cancer cell-specific vulnerabilities
- π Improving personalised cancer medicine
- π§π»βπ» Teaching folks how to code (check out workshops at The Carpentries!)
- πͺπΌ Empowering under-represented people through intensional community building (come out to an event with RLadies Vancouver!)