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David Porubsky

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science
gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

- Isaac Asimov

porubsky
  • Research Scientist/Collaborator
  • Email: porubsky [AT] u.washington.edu

Professional Experience

Research Scientist
EMBL
2025-current
Consultant
EMBL
2023-2024
Acting Instructor
Dept. Genome Sciences, U. Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2021-2023
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dept. Genome Sciences, U. Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2018-2021
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
2017-2018
EMBO short-term Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany
2016
Internship student
University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2012

Education

Ph.D., Single-cell Genomics & Bioinformatics
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
2017
M.Sc., Molecular Biology
Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009

Research Interests

Bioinformatics, Single-cell genomics & Evolutionary biology

Selected Publications

Porubsky D, Höps W, Ashraf H, Hsieh P, Rodriguez-Martin B, Yilmaz F, Ebler J, et al. Recurrent Inversion Polymorphisms in Humans Associate with Genetic Instability and Genomic Disorders. (2022) Cell 185 (11): 1986–2005.e26.

Porubsky D, Ebert P, Audano PA, Vollger MR, Harvey WT, Marijon P, Ebler J, et al. Fully Phased Human Genome Assembly without Parental Data Using Single-Cell Strand Sequencing and Long Reads. (2021) Nature Biotechnology 39 (3): 302–8.

Porubsky D, Sanders AD, Hops W, Hsieh P, Sulovari A, Li R, Mercuri L, et al. Recurrent Inversion Toggling and Great Ape Genome Evolution. (2020) Nature Genetics, June. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-0646-x.

Ghareghani M, Porubsky D, Sanders AD, Meiers S, Eichler EE, Korbel JO, Marschall T. Strand-seq enables reliable separation of long reads by chromosome via expectation maximization. (2018) Bioinformatics, 1;34(13):i115-i123.

Porubsky D, Garg S, Sanders AD, Korbel JO, Guryev V, Lansdorp PM, Marschall T. Dense andaccurate whole-chromosome haplotyping of individual genomes. (2017) Nat Commun. 8(1):1293

Porubsky D, Sanders AD, van Wietmarschen N, Falconer E, Hills M, Spierings DC, Bevova MR, Guryev V, Lansdorp PM. Direct chromosome-length haplotyping by single-cell sequencing. (2016) Genome Research, 26:1–10

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