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Victor Yuan

Bioinformatics Scientist

Sonoma Biotherapeutics, South San Francisco, California, USA

About Me

A bioinformatics scientist working in on cell therapy at Sonoma Biotherapeutics in San Francisco. Studied DNA methylation in context of pregnancy epigenetics for my PhD at University of British Columbia. Due to start-up nature, I have diverse responsibilities and experience: analyzing in-house generated immunological NGS datasets, utilizing public RNA/protein databases like HPA and UniProt, developing R packages and web apps, and designing and implementing NGS workflows and data engineering models.

Interests

  • Immunology, Cell therapy, Biotechnology
  • Epi/Gen/Transcript -omics
  • Data Science and Engineering, R, Statistics, Machine learning, Data Viz

Education

  • PhD in Genome Sciences and Technology, 2022

    University of British Columbia

  • BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology, 2016

    Concordia University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Scientist

Sonoma Biotherapeutics

Oct 2022 – Present San Francisco
 
 
 
 
 

PhD Student

University of British Columbia

Sep 2016 – Mar 2022 Vancouver, BC
 
 
 
 
 

Undergraduate Student

Concordia University

Sep 2011 – May 2016 Montreal, QC

Selected Publications

Yuan, Victor, Desmond, Hui, Yin, Yifan, Penaherrera, Maria S., Beristain, Alexander G., Robinson, Wendy P (2021). Cell-specific characterization of the placental methylome. BMC Genomics.

PDF Dataset Source Document

Yuan, Victor, Price, E Magda, Del Gobbo, Giulia F, Mostafavi, Sara, Cox, Brian, Binder, Alexandra M, Michels, Karin B, Marsit, Carmen, Robinson, Wendy P (2019). Accurate ethnicity prediction from placental DNA methylation data. Epi. & Chrom..

PDF Code Dataset Source Document

Yunsung Lee, Sanaa Choufani, Rosanna Weksberg, Samantha L Wilson, Victor Yuan, Amber Burt, Carmen Marsit, Ake T Lu, Beate Ritz, Jon Bohlin, Håkon K Gjessing, Jennifer R Harris, Per Magnus, Alexandra M Binder, Wendy P Robinson, Astanand Jugessur, Steve Horvath (2019). Placental epigenetic clocks: estimating gestational age using placental DNA methylation levels.. Aging.

PDF Source Document

Code

R packages, Shiny apps

Recent Posts

"Can you check gene x for me?" quickly reading 1 gene at a time from single cell data

“Can you check gene x for me?” is a common question I get when working with other scientists on gene expression projects. This is an …
Last updated on Feb 24, 2024 17 min read R, Analysis, scRNAseq

Intro to ggplot2 - workshop slides

A beginner ggplot2 workshop I hosted for the Trainee Omics Group at BC Children’s Research Institute. See slides here
Dec 10, 2020 1 min read

Pacific Boulder League 2019

An analysis of Pacific Boulder League, an amateur climbing competition held in Vancouver and surrounding cities.
Last updated on Nov 14, 2019 10 min read R, Analysis, Climbing

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Resume

My resume is available in PDF. Last updated: July 2022.