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Sven Willger

Sven Willger

Senior Scientist

Heinrich-Heine University | Düsseldorf

Technologies

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My New Track

Python Fundamentals

My New Course

Introduction to Python

My New Track

Python Fundamentals

Insights evangelist, spreading the gospel of data-driven decision-making.

My Work

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Python Toolbox

PythonShell
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Data Manipulation with pandas

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Introduction to Python

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Intermediate Python

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Python Toolbox

PythonShell

DataCamp Course Completion

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Introduction to Python
Intermediate Python
Data Manipulation with pandas
Joining Data with pandas

My Work Experience

Where I've interned and worked during my career.

University of Düsseldorf | Jun 2022 - Present

Bioinformatics Scientist

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Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research | Apr 2017 - May 2022

Research Data Scientist

Bioinformatic analyses of transcriptomic datasets, as well as implementation of software pipelines to accelerate and standardize analyses
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Dartmouth College | Dec 2015 - Mar 2017

Research Scientist

Organizing TRC data for access, project implementation, equipment evaluation and acquisition and maintenance, bioinformatic analyses of available data sets, preparation of data for publication

Dartmouth College

Laboratory Director

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Dartmouth College | Jan 2012 - Dec 2015

Research Associate

I developed methods and tools that allowed to characterize the fungal microbiome and polymicrobial interactions in the cystic fibrosis lung. I am also part of a multi-group project that is developing a rapid identification tool for bacterial and fungal infections in the cystic fibrosis lung based on the NanoString technology. Additional, I was the lead scientist of a multi-institutional project that aims to analyze the phosphoproteome of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans.

Marine Biological Laboratory | Aug 2013 - Jun 2014

Course Instructor

My responsibilities included design and supervision of research projects for course participants of the Medical Mycology course at the MBL in the years 2013 and 2014.

Montana State University | Sep 2007 - Dec 2011

Postdoctoral fellow

I was working on understanding how A. fumigatus is able to survive in the hypoxic conditions encountered during fungal pathogenesis. At sites of infection in the lung, significant influxes of host immune effector cells as well as tissue damage create a microenvironment devoid of oxygen in which the fungus must survive. I was using microarray analysis to identify genes involved in the fungal response to hypoxia, and in addition I was working on a specific gene, srbA, that is involved in sensing oxygen and allowing the fungus to grow in hypoxic conditions.

Montana State University | Sep 2007 - Dec 2011

Course Instructor

I taught and organized in the Mycology section in the course MB 441 ­"Eukaryotic Pathogens" (Spring semester 2009 and 2010). Responsibilities included giving lectures and setting up experiments for senior undergraduate students.

University of Duesseldorf | Sep 2004 - Jun 2007

PhD student

I analyzed the influence of O-glycosylation on the virulence of C. neoformans by characterizing the protein mannosyltransferase (PMT) gene family. This gene family, which consists of three members, PMT1, PMT2, and PMT4, encodes enzymes that catalyze the initial step of protein O-glycosylation. Effects of deleting PMT-genes on virulence of C. neoformans were determined by routine in vitro and in vivo assays analyzing specific virulence factors and infectivity of the pathogen, respectively.

Duke University | Oct 2006 - Feb 2007

Research scholar

Continuing and finishing the research for my PhD thesis on a short term scholar of the DAAD.

My Education

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), MicrobiologyUniversity of Düsseldorf | 2007
Diploma, MicrobiologyUniversity of Düsseldorf | 2004

About Me

Sven Willger

Highly trained in a diverse array of molecular techniques in fungi and bacteria. In-depth knowledge of handling and manipulating different bacterial and fungal microorganisms. Strong computer programming skills to perform big data analyses

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