Research staff

Nicola Bedoni
Graduate Assistant, Group Rivolta

Research project: Study of Inherited Retinal Degenerations using whole genome sequencing and autozygome-based analysis

Keywords: Next generation sequencing, bioinformatics, molecular biology, inheritance, human genetics

Personal link: Linkedin

Adriano Biasini
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Marques

Tugce Bilgin Sonay
Research Associate, Group Dessimoz

Research project: Evolution of gene regulation through long non-coding RNA

Keywords: lincRNA, evolution, gene expression, cis-regulation, positive selection

Personal link: tugcebilgin.net

Anneke Brümmer
Postdoctoral position, Group Bergmann

Research project: Analysing properties of lincRNAs and mRNAs to understand why lincRNAs are not translated

Keywords: computational RNA biology, lincRNAs, translation, codon usage, tRNA abundance

Sarvenaz Choobdar
Postdoctoral position, Group Bergmann

Katarina Cisarova
Graduate Assistant, Group Rivolta

Jyoti Dalal
Doctoral Student, Group Malaspinas

Leonardo De Oliveira Martins
Postdoctoral Researcher SNSF, Group Dessimoz

Research project: Clustering and visualisation models for comparing gene families

Keywords: Phylogenomics, species trees, clustering, genomics, visualisation

Personal link: www.leomartins.org

Pablo Duchén Bocángel
Postdoctoral position, Group Salamin

David Dylus
Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

Research projects:
- Fast phylogenomic data generation from reads by sidestepping assembly, annotation and orthology prediction
- Tree visualisation and side by side tree comparison using phylo.io
- Benchmarking of NGS pipelinesfor outbreak detection within hospitals in Switzerland

Keywords: Phylogenomics, benchmarking, visualisation, evolution, orthology

Personal links:
- Linkedin
- https://github.com/dvdylus

Ikram El Zaoui
Postdoctoral position, Group Rivolta

Théo Gaboriau
Postdoctoral position, Group Salamin

Arnaud Gaigher
Postdoctoral position, Group Salamin
 

Natasha Glover
Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

Kimberly Julie Gilbert
Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

Robin Hofmeister
Doctoral Student, Group Delaneau

Bita Khalili
Postdoctoral position, Group Bergmann

Athanasios Kousathanas
Postdoctoral position, Group Robinson

Yuanlong Liu
Postdoctoral position, Group Ciriello

Research project: Using computational approaches to understand the structural variations in the 3D genome and their impact on cancer

Keywords: Cancer genomics, 3D genome, Hi-C data analysis, computational oncology

Oriane Loiseau
Graduate Assistant, Group Salamin

Anna Marcionetti
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Salamin

Tarcisio Mendes De Farias
Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

Research project: BioSODA: An intuitive search function for bioinformatics databases

Keywords: Natural language processing, semantic web, data integration, biological ontolgies, heterogeneous databases

Personal link: Linkedin

Frédéric Michaud
Postdoctoral position, Group Malaspinas

Marco Mina
Postdoctoral position, Group Ciriello

David Moi
Research Associate, Group Dessimoz

Barbara Mota
Doctoral Student, Group Malaspinas & Delaneau

Yannis Nevers
Doctoral Student, Group Dessimoz

Sven Erik Ojavee
Graduate Assistant, Group Robinson

Virginie Peter
Doctoral Student, Group Rivolta

Research project: Genomics of retinal degenerations and the clinical and molecular characterization of a cohort of patients in Portugal with inherited retinal degeneration

Keywords: Inherited Retinal Degenerations, NGS, mendelian, bioinformatics, functional studies

Mathieu Quinodoz
Graduate Assistant, Group Rivolta

Research project: Using computer-based OMICS such as whole exome or genome sequencing, RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq or long-reads sequencing to analyze human Mendelian disorders

Keywords: Sequencing, disease, machine-learning, retinal degeneration, molecular biology

Rocio Rama Ballesteros
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Salamin

Franck Raynaud
Postdoctoral position, Group Ciriello

Diogo M. Ribeiro
Postdoctoral position, Group Delaneau

Victor Rossier
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Dessimoz (co-supervised by Marc Robinson-Rechavi, DEE)

Sarah Schmid
Graduate Assistant, Group Salamin

Research project: Genomics of adaptive radiation in clownfish

Keywords: Hybridization, mutualism, transcriptomics, speciation, phylogeny

Reyhan Sönmez Flitman
Doctoral Student, Group Bergmann

Yihong Jennifer Tan
Postdoctoral position, Group Marques

Research project: An unexpected contribution of lincRNA splicing to enhancer-associated gene regulation in cis

Keywords: Enhancer, intergenic lon noncoding RNA, splicing, transcription, cis gene regulation

Daniele Tavernari
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Ciriello

Research project: Genomic and epigenetic heterogeneity of lung adenocarcinoma

Keywords: Genomics, epigenetics, cancer, computational biology, tumor heterogeneity

Personal link: Linkedin

Mattia Tomasoni
Graduate Assistant, Group Bergmann

Clément Train
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Dessimoz

Research project: Inferring hierarchical orthologous groups

Keywords: Phylogenetic, evolution, orthology, visualisation, clustering

Personal link: Linkedin

Daniel Trejo Baños
Postdoctoral position, Group Robinson

Marie Zufferey
Doctoral Student, Group Ciriello

Research project: Topologically associating domains: detection, function and role in cancer

Keywords: Hi-C, TAD, chromatin organization, tridimensional genome, cancer

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