Jasper Wong Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, BC, CA

• In the Scott and Morin lab, BC Centre for Lymphoid Cancer
• Optimized copy number calling on lowpass WGS, WES, and WGS for fresh frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue samples.
• Led the analyses for two projects: 1) examining genetic determinants behind local and systemic cases of primary testicular lymphoma. 2) aggregating external datasets and analyzing the genomic landscape of plasmablastic.
• Worked with SNP/SNV calling in WES, WGS, RNA-seq libraries; worked with phasing long-read data for structural variation calling; worked with CNV calling and purity estimates in WES, WGS, and lowpassWGS.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Thesis is titled: TET2- and TET3- dependence of vitamin C-induced epigenomic alterations in acute myeloid leukemia.
• Optimized a bulk electroporation-based CRISPR-cas9 protocol for en masse genetic inactivation in a cell line population. Developed a pipeline that employs an amplicon library to determine the proportion of cells in a.
• Analyzed NGS libraries involving RNA-seq, h/meDIP-seq (5hmC/5mC-immunoprecipitated DNA sequencing), transcription factor and histone ChIP-seq, WGBS data using R and bash scripts.
• Worked with gnu parallel.
• Used immunohistochemistry for intracellular staining of 5hmC epigenetic modification.
• Trained in flow cytometry for sorting of cell-surface markers and for annexin V-PI staining.

Vancouver

• Provide biological and statistical expertise in data analyses
• Led pilot in vivo experiments to determine the potential synergistic analgesic properties of cannabis cultivars on CD1 mice
• Proficient and skilled with statistical systems (Graphpad Prism 6 and R)
• Certified with CCAC Ethics, Animal Care Rodent (mice) Handling, and Animal Care Rodent (mice) Injections (intraperitoneal and subcutaneous)
• Designed and written several SOPs related to analgesia assays and drug synergy statistical experiments

Vancouver, Canada Area

• UBC STAT540
• Facilitated seminars on a weekly basis to a class of 64 graduate students, covering key biological and statistical analyses involving R.
• Mentored 5 groups in their final project.

London, Ontario

• Primary author in the development and inception of 2014-2015 Undergraduate Science Case Competition case that encourages active thinking and scientific inquiry among undergraduate competing students through the use of.
• Published case in the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science

Chinese University Of Hong Kong

• Identified potential candidates for sar1b specific protein-protein interactions after transfecting sar1b-NTAPC plasmids into 293T and COS cell lines and conducting silver stain analysis

University Of British Columbia

• Identified a Bacillus mycoides strain through 16s rRNA sequencing, and analyzed its swarming properties in relation to various peptone, chemicals, and extracts
• Extracted various active compounds from lichen and E. coli Nissle, testing its efficacy and response to bacteria containing the lux reporter gene (Salmonella, and S. aureus)
• Executed and completed independent project, “Parvomomycin X”, whose objective is to set up a system in which new actinomycetes are subjected to genetic and phenotypic screens in order to identify candidates for a drug.
• Received a $1000 honorarium for my work in Parvomomycin X

Master'S Degree, Genome Sciences/Genomics

Activities and Societies: Teaching assistant, Breakdancing, DataSense, Camp Goodtimes •CEEHRC/IHEC conference poster award (2019) •CEEHRC.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biological And Biomedical Sciences, 3.7 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Undergraduate Science Case Competition, South East Asian Association, Western Breakdancing Club, Alternate.