My name is Yuka Takemon and I'm a research associate at the Michael Smith Laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia ๐จ๐ฆ
- ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ They/Them/Theirs
- ๐ Japanese ๐ฏ๐ต living in Canada
- ๐ Studying cancer genomics in the Marra Lab @ the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia
- ๐ง๐ปโ๐ซ Certified Carpentries and RStudio/Posit instructor and lesson maintainer for Intro to R for Genomics
- ๐ Alumni of the University of British Columbia (PhD in Genome Science and Technology), University of Maine (PSM in Bioinformatics) and College of the Atlantic (BA in Human Ecology) ๐บ๐ธ
- ๐ญ Previously at The Jackson Lab as a research assistant studying transcriptomic and proteomic impacts of chronic kidney diseases and renal aging ๐ซ๐ง๐ผ
- ๐งฌ Using genetic interactions to understand gene function and identify cancer cell-specific vulnerabilities
- ๐ Improving personalised cancer medicine
- ๐ง๐ปโ๐ป Teaching folks how to code (check out workshops at The Carpentries!)
- ๐ช๐ผ Empowering under-represented people through intensional community building (come out to an event with RLadies Vancouver!)
