Former Research Groups

  Baroj Abdulkarim
  Postdoctoral position, Group Marques

Adriano Biasini
Doctoral Student SNSF, Group Marques

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

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

Sarvenaz Choobdar
Postdoctoral position, Group Bergmann

Katarina Cisarova
Graduate Assistant, Group Rivolta

Florian Clemente
Postdoctoral position, 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

Arnaud Gaigher
Postdoctoral position, Group Salamin

Kimberly Julie Gilbert
Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

Natasha Glover
Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

 Eduardo Guerra Amorim
 Postdoctoral position, Group Malaspinas

 Research interests: Human Genetics, Human Pathogens, Natural Selection

 Keywords: Adaptation, Ancient DNA, Genomics, Human evolution, Natural selection.

 Buschan Karampudi
 Postdoctoral position, Group Dessimoz

Bita Khalili
Postdoctoral position, Group Bergmann

Athanasios Kousathanas
Postdoctoral position, Group Robinson

Oriane Loiseau
Graduate Assistant, 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

 Baptiste Micheli
 Doctoral student, Group Salamin

Frédéric Michaud
Postdoctoral position, Group Malaspinas

Marco Mina
Postdoctoral position, Group Ciriello

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

Franck Raynaud
Postdoctoral position, Group Ciriello

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

 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

 Frédérique Varoqueaux
 Senior Researcher, Group Fasshauer

 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