My name is Yuka Takemon and I'm a research associate at the Michael Smith Laboratories in Vancouver, British Columbia 🇨🇦
- 🏳️🌈 They/Them/Theirs
- 🌏 Japanese 🇯🇵 living in Canada
- 📚 Studying cancer genomics in the Marra Lab @ the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia
- 🧑🏻🏫 Certified Carpentries and RStudio/Posit instructor and lesson maintainer for Intro to R for Genomics
- 🎓 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) 🇺🇸
- 🐭 Previously at The Jackson Lab as a research assistant studying transcriptomic and proteomic impacts of chronic kidney diseases and renal aging 🫘🧓🏼
- 🧬 Using genetic interactions to understand gene function and identify cancer cell-specific vulnerabilities
- 💊 Improving personalised cancer medicine
- 🧑🏻💻 Teaching folks how to code (check out workshops at The Carpentries!)
- 💪🏼 Empowering under-represented people through intensional community building (come out to an event with RLadies Vancouver!)
