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Germany

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Molecular biologist with 10 years experience. Expert in R, data analysis/visualization and scientific writing.

Profile Summary

Molecular biologist with 10 years of professional/academic research experience. Expert level knowledge in molecular biology, molecular medicine, translational research, oncology, signaling pathways, genomics, epigenetics, stem cells, in vitro and in vivo models of disease and developmen. Expert level knowledge in next-gen sequencing and sequencing data analysis including panel seq and transcriptomics (RNAseq+microarrays). Worked on large national and international research consortia. Contributions included data generation, analysis, visualization and subsequent (first)authorships in journals including MolSysBio, NatComm, CellRep and PLoS Genetics.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Data Analysis
• ★ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Genetics
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ Data Processing
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Scientific Animation & Illustration
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Work Experience

Guest scientist

Charité Comprehensive Cancer Center

October 2017 - Present

Research scientist

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin & German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg

October 2014 - September 2017

Research scientist

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

October 2011 - September 2014

Education

PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Molecular Biology

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute for Biology

January 2016 - May 2019

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Dirk Schumacher, Nicola Valeri, Geoffroy Andrieux, Karsten Boehnke, Marlen Keil, Alessandra Silvestri, Maxine Silvestrov, Ulrich Keilholz, Johannes Haybaeck, Gerrit Erdmann, et al.(2019). Heterogeneous pathway activation and drug response modelled in colorectal-tumor-derived 3D cultures . {PLOS} Genetics. 15. (3). p. e1008076. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})

Dirk Schumacher, Geoffroy Andrieux, Karsten Boehnke, Marlen Keil, Alessandra Silvestri, Maxine Silvestrov, Ulrich Keilholz, Johannes Haybaeck, Gerrit Erdmann, Christoph Sachse, et al.(2019). Heterogeneous pathway activation and drug response modelled in colorectal-tumor-derived 3D cultures . {PLOS} Genetics. 15. (3). p. e1008076. Public Library of Science ({PLoS})

Dirk Schumacher, Moritz Schütte, Thomas Risch, Nilofar Abdavi-Azar, Karsten Boehnke, Marlen Keil, Reha Yildiriman, Christine Jandrasits, Tatiana Borodina, Vyacheslav Amstislavskiy, et al.(2017). Molecular dissection of colorectal cancer in pre-clinical models identifies biomarkers predicting sensitivity to {EGFR} inhibitors . Nature Communications. 8. p. 14262. Springer Nature

Dirk Schumacher, Soulafa Mamlouk, Liam Harold Childs, Daniela Aust, Daniel Heim, Friederike Melching, Cristiano Oliveira, Thomas Wolf, Pawel Durek, Hendrik Bläker, et al.(2017). {DNA} copy number changes define spatial patterns of heterogeneity in colorectal cancer . Nature Communications. 8. p. 14093. Springer Nature

Dirk Schumacher, Joseph L. Regan, Stephanie Staudte, Andreas Steffen, Johannes Haybaeck, Ulrich Keilholz, Caroline Schweiger, Nicole Golob-Schwarzl, Dominik Mumberg, David Henderson, et al.(2017). Non-Canonical Hedgehog Signaling Is a Positive Regulator of the {WNT} Pathway and Is Required for the Survival of Colon Cancer Stem Cells . Cell Reports. 21. (10). p. 2813--2828. Elsevier {BV}

Dirk Schumacher, Karsten Boehnke, Philip W. Iversen, María José Lallena, Rubén Haro, Joaquín Amat, Johannes Haybaeck, Sandra Liebs, Martin Lange, Reinhold Schäfer, et al.(2016). Assay Establishment and Validation of a High-Throughput Screening Platform for Three-Dimensional Patient-Derived Colon Cancer Organoid Cultures . Journal of Biomolecular Screening. 21. (9). p. 931--941. {SAGE} Publications

Dirk Schumacher, Karsten Boehnke, Marlen Keil, Alessandra Silvestri, Maxine Silvestrov, Jens Hoffman, Iduna Fichtner, Reinhold Schaefer, Christian RA Regenbrecht(2016). Abstract 2412: Reconstructing intratumor heterogeneity: lessons from therapeutic intervention in patient-specific models . Cancer Research. 76. (14 Supplement). p. 2412--2412. American Association for Cancer Research ({AACR})

Dirk Schumacher, Karsten Boehnke, Martin Lange, Yvonne Welte, Cathrin Davies, Maria Rivera, Marlen Keil, Ulrich Keilholz, Johannes Haybaeck, Juan Angel Velasco, et al.(2014). Abstract 2018: A pipeline within the {OncoTrack} project for generating Patient-tumor-derived 3D cell cultures ({PT}3DC) and their application for individualized, targeted drug sensitivity assays . Cancer Research. 74. (19 Supplement). p. 2018--2018. American Association for Cancer Research ({AACR})

B. Klinger, A. Sieber, R. Fritsche-Guenther, F. Witzel, L. Berry, D. Schumacher, Y. Yan, P. Durek, M. Merchant, R. Schafer, et al.(2014). Network quantification of {EGFR} signaling unveils potential for targeted combination therapy . Molecular Systems Biology. 9. (1). p. 673--673. {EMBO}

Dirk Schumacher, Jasmin Gries, Julia Arand, Pavlo Lutsik, Maria Rivera Markelova, Iduna Fichtner, Jörn Walter, Christine Sers, Sascha Tierling(2013). Bi-{PROF} . Epigenetics. 8. (7). p. 765--771. Informa {UK} Limited