CONTACT
scha at ncsu dot edu
CAREER
Samsung SDS, Seoul, South Korea, Aug. 2018 - Present
Yonsei University International Campus, Incheon, South Korea, Mar. 2018 - Jun. 2018
Samsung Genomic Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Aug. 2016 - Oct. 2017
EDUCATION
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, U.S.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics, 2011 - 2016
Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Statistics, Economics (double major), 2006 - 2011
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, U.S.
Exchange Student, Statistics, Spring 2009
PBLICATIONS
Cha S, Kang JH, Lee JH, Kim J, Kim H, Yang YJ, Park WY, Kim J. Impact of Genetic Variants on the Individual Potential for Body Fat Loss. Nutrients. 2018 Feb 26;10(3). [PMID: 29495392]
Cha S, Bird DM. Optimizing k-mer size using a variant grid search to enhance de novo genome assembly. Bioinformation. 2016;12(2):36-40. [PMID: 28104957]
Szitenberg A, Cha S, Opperman CH, Bird DM, Blaxter ML, Lunt DH. Genetic Drift, Not Life History or RNAi, Determine Long-Term Evolution of Transposable Elements. Genome Biol Evol. 2016;8(9):2964-2978. [PMID: 27566762]
PROJECTS
De novo assembly of Meloidogyne chitwoodi [Go to M.chitwoodi Genome Browser]
Gene ontology of Meloidogyne chitwoodi [Go to M. chitwoodi Database]
Longitudinal and diurnal study of Meloidogyne hapla and Medicago truncatula [Go to haplatome Database, M. truncatula Database]
EXPERIENCES
Mar. 2016, Poster Presentation, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting 'Evolutionary Biology of Caenorhabditis & Other Nematodes', NY
Nov. 2015, Poster Presentation, 3rd Place Award, Bayer CropScience Research Symposium, RTP, NC
Jul. 2015, Poster Presentation, 54th Society of Nematologists, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI [Abstract , p.100]
Jun. 2015, Poster Presentation, 20th C. elegans Meeting, University of California, LA, CA [Abstract]
Jul. 2013, 52nd Society of Nematologists, Knoxville, TN [Abstract, p.287]
Jun. 2013, Poster Presentation, 19th C. elegans Meeting, University of California, LA, CA [Abstract]
SKILLS
* R, Python, PHP, MySQL, shell scripts in Linux environment, SPSS, Microsoft Office
* Bioinformatics Software (TopHat, Bowtie, BLAST, HTSeq, EdgeR, DESeq, ABySS, SOAP, Velvet, Trinity, GlimmerHMM, RepeatMasker, CEGMA, Augustus, Interproscan, Blast2go, GBrowse, etc.
* Genome Data Analysis (Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis, RNA-seq Data Analysis, Quality Checking, Data Pre-processing, De novo Sequence Genome Assembly, Reference Mapping, Transcriptome Assembly, Gene Annotation, Gene Prediction, Gene Expression Pattern Analysis, Differential Analysis, Gene Ontology
GROUPS
Bioinformatics Research Center
Department of Genomic Sciences
North Carolina State University
PEOPLE
Dr. Bird (Doctoral Advisor)