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Jose Montero

Skills

  • AlphaSimR (+++++)
  • Amazon S3 (+)
  • Bash (+++++)
  • ChatGPT for Productivity (+++)
  • Fast Typing (+++++)
  • Genomic imputation (++++)
  • Genomic simulation (++++)
  • Git (+++++)
  • High Performance Computing (+++++)
  • Linux Terminal (++++)
  • ML with tidymodels (+++++)
  • Multi-omics analysis (+++)
  • MarkDown/Quarto (+++++)
  • Next Generation Sequencing (+++++)
  • Python (+++)
  • R (+++++)
  • SLURM (+++++)
  • SQL (+++)
  • Version Control (+++)
  • XGBoost (+)

Languages

  • Spanish (+++++)
  • English (+++++)
  • German (++++)
  • Italian (++)

Interests

  • Classical Guitar
  • Mountain Bike
  • Languages

Experience

Scientific Researcher (Ph. D. candidate)

March 2022 – Feb 2025
Justus Liebig University (JLU)

Graduate Student Assistant

Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Justus Liebig University (JLU)

Industry Intern

March 2021 – April 2021
Deutsche Saatveredelung (DSV)

Science Classroom Teacher

Sep 2018 – Jul 2019
Holmer Green Senior School (HGSS)

Undergraduate Student Assistant

June 2014 - June 2014
University of Extremadura

Volunteer Assistant

Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Hostelling Scotland (SYHA)

Education

Ph. D. in Agrobioinformatics

March 2022 – Present
Justus Liebig University (JLU)

M. Sc. in Agrobiotechnology

Oct 2019 – Oct 2021
Justus Liebig University (JLU)

M. D. in Secondary Education Teacher’s Training

Oct 2017 – Jun 2018
University of Extremadura (UEx)

B. Sc. in Biochemistry

Sep 2013 – Jul 2017
University of Sevilla (US)

Communications

  • CpG methylation, gene count and telomeric proximity are the main predictors of meiotic crossovers in rapeseed (SUBMITTED)
    • Montero-Tena JA, Zanini SF, Yildiz Gozde, Kox T, Abbadi A, Snowdon RJ, Golicz AA
    The Plant Journal (accepted)
  • haploMAGIC: accurate phasing and detection of recombination in multiparental populations despite genotyping errors
    • Montero-Tena JA, Abdollahi Sisi N, Kox T, Abbadi A, Snowdon RJ, Golicz AA
    G3 (Bethesda) (2024)
  • Oral presentation (watch video): haploMAGIC: Phasing and detecting recombination in multiparental populations (awarded prize to best oral presentation)
    • Montero-Tena JA
    IRC International Rapeseed Congress, Sydney, Australia (24 – 27 Sep 2023)
  • Poster: Generating genome-wide recombination maps using SNP genotyping
    • Montero-Tena JA

    Certifications

    Workshop: Standardizing and harmonizing NGS analysis workflows

    Sep 2024
    German Conference of Bioinformatics, Bielefeld, Germany
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    Workshop: Machine Learning with tidymodels

    Aug 2024
    Posit Conference, Seattle, USA
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    DataCamp courses (x18) on Python, R, and Shell, covering coding fundamentals, data manipulation, statistics, and machine learning

    2022
    datacamp
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    Plant tissue culture and genetic transformation

    April 2020
    JLU, Giessen, Germany
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    Bioinformatics for beginners

    Sep 2021
    Coursera, UC San Diego
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    Whole genome sequencing of bacterial genomes

    Sep 2021
    Coursera, TU Denmark
    link