Ognjen Perišić, PhD

Founder

Big Blue Genomics•  January 2015 - Present

1. Successfully analyzed protein-protein interactions. 2. Analyzed chromatin packaging machinery (in collaboration with Dr. Tamar Schlick lab (NYU).

Research Scientist

New York University (NYU), Department of Chemistry, Dr. Tamar Schlick Lab (NYU).•  June 2017 - February 2019

1. Developed a new, orders of magnitude faster version of the Monte Carlo Chromatin folding code in C++. 2. Successfully analyzed chromatin fiber folding patterns

Bioinformatics analyst - NGS Pipeline engineer

Seven Bridges Genomics•  August 2013 - January 2015

• Worked on projects related to cancer genomics and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). - Wrote code in Python and Docker managers to execute NGS analysis code on Amazon web servers. - Two manuscripts based on the research had been published.

Postdoctoral research associate

Computational Science - ETH Zürich/Lugano/Switzerland•  June 2010 - December 2010

1. Successfully implemented colored noise simulation thermostat, already developed in the lab, to the electronic velocities in ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations. 2. Improved electron temperature control (electron velocities) using low-pass digital filtering.

Postdoctoral Research Associate

New York University (NYU), Department of Chemistry, Dr. Tamar Schlick Lab (NYU).•  June 2008 - December 2009

Successfully examined chromatin folding using Monte Carlo simulations (wrote C++ and Matlab programs to analyze simulation trajectories created by the FORTRAN simulation code).

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Bioengineering, Bioinformatics program, Dr. Hui Lu’s lab•  September 2001 - April 2008

1. PhD thesis research on free energy reconstruction and mechanical properties of proteins examined using molecular simulations. 2. Performed statistical analysis of large protein-ligand data sets as a part of the ligand efficiency project (collaboration with Dr. Celerino Abad-Zapatero : caz@uic.edu) using C++, Matlab and Delphi code. 3. Taught two courses, Introduction to bioinformatics and Molecular modeling.

Engineering internship

Biotechplex•  May 2002 - September 2002

Developed software for gamma camera control and image acquisition using MATLAB and Visual C++.

Software Engineer

Institute of Economic SciencesBelgrade/Serbia.•  January 1999 - August 2001

Developed shareholding application and its original data base engine, network communication and laser printer control protocols, original user interface and text editor embedded in the package. The software was sold to numerous companies across Serbia/Montenegro such as the Coca-Cola Company (Serbia), Vetfarm, etc.