Dereje Jima

Bioinformatics skills are acquired through time, requiring knowledge of Biology, Statistics, and Computer programming. Over time, I have learned aspects of these fields in a diverse research environment. Now I collaborate with multiple investigators in different areas of research.

I DO ASPECTS OF PROTEOMICS, METABOLOMICS, GENOMICS, PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, EPIGENETICS, TOXICOLOGY, ONCOLOGY, BIOSIGNATURE DISCOVERY, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, AND EPIDEMIOLOGY.

My research focuses on analytics at the intersection of human health and large, complex data sets. I conduct Bioinformatics analysis and research in support of projects across the members of the Center of Human Health and the Environment(CHHE) and Bioinformatics Research Center (BRC) as a collaboration. I perform the consultation at the design stage of research studies to ensure that the experimental design is valid, efficient, and correctly powered. My expertise includes cancer genomics, immunology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and Bioinformatics application development; my domain expertise includes proteomics, metabolomics, genomics, personalized medicine, epigenetics, and biosignature discovery. I have worked with collaborators on cancer, infectious disease, immunology, environmental exposure,  and toxicology findings. I have analytical capabilities in high-throughput genomic data analysis such as genome/exome sequencing, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, FAIRE-Seq, small/long ncRNA transcriptome, microbiome, methylation-seq, and genotype microarrays such as 450 and 850k arrays.