Max Chao Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Stony Brook, New York, United States

Biomedical Informatics Program, part of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences(CEAS) as well as the School of Medicine (SOM).

Nyc

Moved with Marcin Imielinski to the Perlmutter Cancer Center @ NYU Langone.- Tasked with training incoming analysts within the group.- Created R bookdown wiki for lab SOP/best practices.- Wrapped up analyses and passed down current package development to new analysts

Thesis under: Pr. Melissa Davis & Pr. Marcin ImielinskiWork covers identifying ancestry specific mutations and complex rearrangements that may confer higher rate of Triple Negative Breast Cancer incidence in African American WGS cohort. (under the Polyethnic 1000 project)

New York, New York, United States

Bioinformatic Analyst under the Marcin Imielinski lab. Work includes package development and maintenance of Imielinski lab packages such as gGnome, JabBa, etc.

- half-time work during MS @ Weill. - Work includes developing pipelines for ATAC and Cut&Run, analyzing RNA-seq data, Shiny Server management, and package development.

Nyc

Post-Bacc Bioinformatician @ Hospital for Special Surgery. Work includes developing and analyzing data for the HSS Genomics Center.

Greater Philadelphia Area

 Biotechnology startup developing a non-invasive liver cancer screening test through analysis of cfDNA found in urine. Current focus is on developing pipelines for processing and analyzing WGS datasets with and without UMIs in urine and plasma using popular industry toolkits such as GATK/picard, fgbio, samtools, bedtools, etc. Trained in basic PCR and qPCR methodology and set-up. Wrote basic parsing scripts in python for analysis and parsing out key information in BAM and… Show more  Biotechnology startup developing a non-invasive liver cancer screening test through analysis of cfDNA found in urine. Current focus is on developing pipelines for processing and analyzing WGS datasets with and without UMIs in urine and plasma using popular industry toolkits such as GATK/picard, fgbio, samtools, bedtools, etc. Trained in basic PCR and qPCR methodology and set-up. Wrote basic parsing scripts in python for analysis and parsing out key information in BAM and VCFs. Gained exposure to, and minor experience in, bash scripting for automating pipelines and workflows, as well as visualization programs in R modules (VennEuler) and perl (Circos) for visualizing BAM coverage. Experience with JBS’s inhouse wrapper, ChimericSeq (uses bt2 to identify chimeric sequences in data set), which includes identifying and probing for HBV integration in patient samples. Show less

Goodale Lab

Independent Research is over d13C content in leaves and if it is affected by drought and treatment conditions. Grant was approved and funded by the HATCH supplement on November 2016. Research started after approval with collection of leaf litter from the 2016 leaf fall. Samples are in process of being tested, and the write-up was finished by November 2017.

Goodale Lab

Employed under Professor Goodale. Work includes: assisting head technician, filtering samples, performing data entry on excel, grinding, VOC testing, and performing tests on samples with lab machines. Overarching research is about 12 treated plots near Ithaca, and how the treatments (Nitrate, Ammonium Sulfate, and Sulfur) affect the local soil microbes and fauna. Fieldwork is also done in the warmer months. This includes: leaf litter collection, DBH, fertilizing, and other plot related… Show more Employed under Professor Goodale. Work includes: assisting head technician, filtering samples, performing data entry on excel, grinding, VOC testing, and performing tests on samples with lab machines. Overarching research is about 12 treated plots near Ithaca, and how the treatments (Nitrate, Ammonium Sulfate, and Sulfur) affect the local soil microbes and fauna. Fieldwork is also done in the warmer months. This includes: leaf litter collection, DBH, fertilizing, and other plot related activities. Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Biomedical Informatics

Master'S Degree, Computational Biology

Bachelor'S, Cals - Bee: Biological And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: CSA- Chinese Student Association, SAM- Sigma Alpha Mu, Research and Intramural Soccer.

Education record