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Andrew Lapointe
Currently searching for a faculty position
Please note that this is a real resume, and I’m really looking for a PhD student position at the moment. I made this resume because Yihui asked me if I’d like to test the pagedown package with my resume. If you are interested in my background and skills, please feel free to contact me.
Education
University of Michigan
PhD in Kinesiology
Ann Arbor, MI
2014 - 2019
Thesis: The Relationship Between Repeated Subclinical Head Impacts and Electrophysiological Indices of Brain Function.
University of Michigan
Certificate in Injury Science
Ann Arbor, MI
2014 - 2019
Laurentian University
MSc in Interdisciplinary Health
Sudbury, Canada
2012 - 2015
Thesis: Examining Daily Quantitative Electroencephalographic (QEEG), Psychophysical and Anthropometric Measures over a One Week Period.
Laurentian University
Honours BSc in Behavioural Neuroscience
Sudbury, Canada
2008 - 2012
Thesis: The Effects of Low Frequency Magnetic Fields Applied During the Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Windows for a Rodent Learning of a Morris Water Maze-like Visuospatial Task
Research Experience
Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Radiology, Cummings School of Medicine, Hotchkiss Brain Institute University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
2019 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
2014 - 2019
- Designed and carried out multiple field experiments in China and the US
- Developed a strong understanding of multivariate approaches to analyzing metabolomics datasets
- Provided statistics consulting to Tufts researchers
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
2007 - 2010
- Designed and conducted a multi-year field experiment
- Analyzed data using generalized linear models and mixed effects models
Research Experience
Graduate Research Assistant
Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
2011 - 2014
- Performed computational biology research towards understanding regulation of alternative splicing in human and mouse transcriptome.
- Found EGFR pathway related mutations, aimed to understand the impacts of cancer mutations on EGFR signaling pathway.
Bioinformatican
My Health Gene Technology Co., Ltd.
Beijing, China
2015 - 2016
- Investigated how cancer cells spread to other parts of the body at the single cell level.
Visiting Scientist
University of Alabama at Birmingham
AL, USA
2016 - 2018
- Investigated the role of mitochondria in development of cancer.
- Investigated the evolution of genome architecture and its role in important evolutionary events.
- Detected thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura related mutations in mutiple patients’ blood genome.
Professional Experience
Data Scientist, intern
SupStat Inc.
Beijing, China
2014
- Taught R language to beginners.
- Wrote Shiny app demos.
- Converted statistical tutorials from SPSS to R language.
Bioinformatician
My Health Gene Technology Co., Ltd.
Beijing, China
2015 - 2016
- Analyzed whole-exome sequencing data.
- Wrote analysis pipelines of ChIP-seq, single cell DNA-seq and single cell RNA-seq.
- Studied tumor metastasis and wrote research reports.
- Also did case studies to identify the genetic defect causing rare disease.
Teaching Experience
Introduction to R Language for Beginners.
Instructor of R and Data Mining Training Courses at SupStat Inc.
Beijing, China
2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Teaching assistant of GBS CB2-201 courses at UAB
AL, USA
2016 - 2017
Selected Presentations
Time between impacts as a factor in kinematic models predicting concussion.
World Congress of Neurology
Kyoto, Japan
Oct 2017
AP Lapointe, KL O’Connor, SP Broglio
Gender Specific Differences in Knee Kinematics Between Participants With And Without A Concussion History.
American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting
Denver, CO
Jun 2017
AP Lapointe, L Nolasco, Sosnowski, A, Andrews, E, Martini, D.N., Palmeiri-Smith, R., Gates, D.H., & Broglio, S.P.
Selected Publications
Combined impacts of prolonged drought and warming on plant size and foliar chemistry
Ann. Bot. (2019). doi:10.1093/aob/mcz004
N/A
2019
CM Orians, R Schweiger, J Dukes, ER Scott, C Müller
Selected Publications and Posters
Genetic and epigenetic signals are found predictive to the distribution of intra-individual divergence of alternative splicing.
Poster for 2013 International Conference of Genomics
Qingdao, China
2014
Yu L, Chen B, Zhang Z.
ESCRT-0 complex modulates Rbf mutant cell survival by regulating Rhomboid endosomal trafficking and EGFR signaling.
J Cell Sci. 2016 May 15;129(10):2075-84.
N/A
2016
Sheng Z, Yu L, Zhang T, Pei X, Li X, Zhang Z and Du W.