Stefan Kurtenbach
Research Assistant Professor at University of Miami
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolStefan Kurtenbach is a research assistant professor at the University of Miami with nine years of post-PhD experience probing how mutations and epigenetic alterations drive tumor progression, particularly in uveal melanoma. Working in Dr. J. William Harbour’s ocular oncology lab, he develops cellular and mouse models and applies RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, and ATAC-seq to distinguish metastatic from non-metastatic disease and to identify pharmacologic reversal strategies. His background spans rigorous molecular and cellular neuroscience and cell physiology training from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and York University, culminating in a summa cum laude PhD in Biology and Biotechnology. Stefan bridges deep wet-lab expertise with translational focus, moving discoveries from genomic profiling to in vitro and in vivo validation. Based in Miami, he combines long-term academic continuity at the Miller School of Medicine with a practical drive to translate epigenetic insights into therapeutic leads. An often-overlooked strength is his dual experience in neuroscience and oncology, which informs creative cross-disciplinary approaches to tumor biology.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology and Biotechnology, summa cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biology and Biotechnology, summa cum laude at Ruhr-Universität Bochum
German, English
Github Skills (14)
phylogenetic-trees10
draw10
evolution9
bioinformatics9
visualization8
sequencing5
variants5
rna-seq5
genomics4
pipeline4
data-processing2
loops2
seq2
arima1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
harbourlab/PieParty
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 80 commits, 49 pushes in 1 year 3 months
harbourlab/scCNV_heatmap
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
Generates meaninful heatmaps from 10x single cell CNV data
Contributions:2 releases, 10 commits, 10 pushes in 6 months
10xcnvheatmapssingle-cell
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