Dr.
Thomas Lesley Sitter
Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, Microbiology
lesleysitter (at) hotmail.com
Prager Strasse 53
Leipzig, Germany
RESUME
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Dec 2020 – Present
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Data-mine genomic shotgun data from archaeological remains in order to investigate microbial evolution.
Freelance Bioinformatician
Polish Academy of Sciences
Apr 2020 – Sep 2020
Gdańsk, Pomorskie, Poland
A short term project to validate striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) exome data from a pilot study, and generate several scripts for downstream analysis
PHD Candidate
Lincoln University (NZ)
May 2016 – Jan 2020
Lincoln, New Zealand
Investigate the role of HGT drivers in the acquisition and loss of virulence in the grass grub (Costelytra giveni) bio-control agents, Serratia entomophila and Serratia proteamaculans, through bioinformatics and microbiological analysis.
Intern Bioinformatician
Enza Zaden
Apr 2015 – Sep 2015
Enkhuizen, Netherlands
Intern on the Bioinformatics Department of Enza Zaden. Development of a QTL analysis pipeline. Languages used are; Python, Bash, R, with the use of Rqtl and Shiny R packages.
Intern Bioinformatician
Wageningen UR (University & Research centre)
Sep 2014 – Feb 2015
Wageningen, Netherlands
Intern on the Bioinformatics Department of Wageningen UR. The project involved using several pipelines to annotate three de novo tomato genome assemblies and perform some comparative genomics and proteome comparisons between them and a known reference.