Hello! I'm Celine
I specialize in building mathematical models and statistical data analysis to study and describe biological phenomena.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
pharmacology, physiology, diseases, real world systems
EDUCATION
November 2016
Dr. rerum naturalium (PhD)
Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces / University of Potsdam
Advisor: Dr. Angelo Valleriani
Dissertation: Post-transcriptional Control of Gene Expression
Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship
June 2012
Master of Science
Bachelor of Science
University of California, Los Angeles
M.S. Biomedical Engineering (Biocybernetics Concentration)
B.S. Computational and Systems Biology (Systems Biology Concentration)
Advisor: Prof. Joe DiStefano III
Thesis: Algorithmic Parameter Space Reduction of a Systems Biology Model
UCLA Departmental Scholar
Dean's List
Kinetic Analysis of Protein Stability Reveals Age-Dependent Degradation
Erik McShane, Celine Sin, Henrik Zauber, Jonathan Wells, Neysan Donnelly, Xi Wang, Jingyi Hou, Wei Chen,
Zuzana Storchova, Joseph Marsh, Angelo Valleriani, Matthias Selbach
Cell 167(3): 803-812, 2016.
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Degradation parameters from Pulse-Chase experiments
Celine Sin, Davide Chiarugi, Angelo Valleriani
PLoS ONE, 11(5):1-26, 2016.
Quantitative assessment of ribosome dropoff in E. coli
Celine Sin, Davide Chiarugi, Angelo Valleriani
Nucleic Acids Research, 44(6): 2528-2537, 2016.
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Bacteria differently regulate mRNA abundance to specifically respond to various stresses
Alex Bartholomäus, Ivan Fedyunin, Peter Feist, Celine Sin, Gong Zhang, Angelo Valleriani, Zoya Ignatova
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 374(2063):20150069-, 2016.
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Single-molecule modeling of mRNA degradation by miRNA: Lessons from data
Celine Sin, Davide Chiarugi, Angelo Valleriani
BMC Systems Biology, 9(Suppl3):S2, 2015.
PUBLICATIONS
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Winter 2016
Adjunct Faculty
Introduction to Neuropsychology
TOURO COLLEGE BERLIN
Introductory course for Bachelor students in Psychology.
I planned the course, gave the lectures, designed and graded the assignments and exams.
Winter 2013
Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Stochastic Modeling
UNIVERSITÄT POTSDAM
Course for Masters students in Biology, covering statistics, modeling, and basic programming.
I organized and taught the tutorial sessions, which were focused on problem solving and programming.
Fall 2010
Teaching Assistent
Modeling and Simulation of Biomedical Systems
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Advanced course in modeling biological systems for Bachelor and Masters students.
I helped develop the course reader, planned and led the discussion sections, designed and graded the problem sets.
SKILLS
Build math models to describe biological phenomena.
Develop tools and protocols for systems biology.
Design computational methods for data analysis.
Languages for computers
Expert level MATLAB programming, management of LARGE DATA SETS, and OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING.
Basic knowledge of Python, BASH, R, bioinformatics pipelines. Previous experience with VBA, Perl, Lisp, C++
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Computational Software
COPASI, AMIGO, VISSIM, SAAM II, Mathematica
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Productivity Software
Well-versed in office software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Visio, OneNote), publishing software (LATEX), bibliography managers
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Languages for humans
Fluent in ENGLISH and CANTONESE.
Elementary level MANDARIN and SPANISH, currently learning GERMAN