Tanya Phung
Postdoctoral Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolTanya Phung is a postdoctoral bioinformatics researcher based in Amsterdam with over a decade of experience building and deploying pipelines for large-scale sequencing data across cancer, neuroscience, and evolutionary biology. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from UCLA and combines rigorous statistical modeling with practical software engineering—refactoring webtools and automating end-to-end NGS workflows for WES, WGS, RNA-seq, and single-cell datasets. Her recent work systematically integrated single-cell brain studies to pinpoint disease-associated cell types and links tumor neoantigens to the microbiome, demonstrating a knack for cross-disciplinary questions that bridge genomics and immunology. Known for clear documentation and stakeholder communication, she thrives in multidisciplinary teams and frequently translates complex analyses into user-facing tools. An unusually broad experimental background—from molecular cloning and FRET assays to production sequencing on Illumina platforms—gives her a rare fluency across wet lab and computational domains.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor degree of science, Biology, Bachelor degree of science, Biology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Vietnamese, Chinese, Dutch
Github Skills (15)
gwas9
next-generation-sequencing7
web-application7
spectrum7
sequencing7
genetics7
genomics7
bioinformatics7
population-genetics7
genetic7
python4
data-set3
genome2
pipeline2
testing2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SexChrLab/EpitopePipeline
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:23 commits, 18 pushes in 7 months
tnphung/popgen_scripts
Dec 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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