Genomics of Long noncoding RNA and Disease
Group
Group Leader
Rory Johnson
rory.johnson[at]ucd.ie
2020- Associate Professor, University College Dublin
2020- Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Bern
2018 Visiting Fellow at Chinese Academy of Sciences (Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine & Health)
2016-2021 Junior Group Leader, Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research in RNA & Disease
2014-2015 Diploma in Management for Scientists and Researchers (Instituto de Empresa, Madrid)
2010-2016 Ramón y Cajal Fellow / Staff Scientist, Centre for Genomic Regulation (with Roderic Guigó)
2007-2009 Postdoc, Genome Institute of Singapore (with Lawrence W. Stanton)
2002-2007 Wellcome Trust PhD, University of Leeds (with Noel J. Buckley)
1996-2000 MSc Physics, Imperial College (London)
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Group Members
Panagiotis Chouvardas
Education: BSc in Informatics (University of Piraeus, Greece); MSc in Information Technology in Biology and Medicine (Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens); PhD in Computational modeling of epigenetic regulation of gene expression during chronic inflammation (Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Field: NGS analysis and interpretation.
Projects: Design of bioinformatic pipelines for lncRNA discovery and prioritization
Links: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: panagiotis.chouvardas@dbmr.unibe.ch
Roberta Esposito
Education: BSc in Biology (University of Federico II, Italy); MSc in Molecular Diagnostics (University of Federico II, Italy); PhD, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics – CNR of Naples.
Field: CRISPR/Cas9 and Genome editing in lncRNAs
Project: CRISPR/Cas9 screening for the identification of lncRNAs in drug resistance
Links: ResearchGate, Google Scholar
Contact: roberta.esposito@dbmr.unibe.ch
Hugo Guillen-Ramirez
Education: BSc in Computer Systems Engineering (Instituto Tecnológico de Tepic, Mexico); MSc in Computer Science (CICESE Research Center, Mexico); PhD in Computer Science (CICESE Research Center, Mexico).
Field: ncRNA annotation and machine learning applied to RNA data.
Projects: Annotation of lncRNA elements
Links: Google Scholar, LinkedIn, ORCID, ReasearchGate
Contact: hugo.guillenramirez@dbmr.unibe.ch
Tina Uroda
Education: BSc in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Research (Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, Croatia); MSc in Pharmaceutical research and development (Department of Biotechnology, University of Rijeka, Croatia); PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory- EMBL, Grenoble (France) and Universite Grenoble Alpes .
Field: CRISPR/Cas9 and Genome editing in lncRNAs, lncRNA localization.
Projects: The elements of long noncoding RNA function
Contact: tina.uroda@dbmr.unibe.ch
Taisia Polidori
Postdoc
BSc in Biology (University of Roma Tre);
MSc Biology for Molecular, Cellular and Pathophysiological Research (University of Roma Tre, Italy)
PhD (University of Bern)
taisia.polidor[at]dbmr.unibe.ch
Michela Coan
Postdoc
BSc in Health Biotechnology (University of Udine)
MSc in Biotechnology (University of Trieste)
PhD (Italian National Cancer Institute, CRO and University of Verona)
michela.coan[at]ucd.ie
Adrienne Vancura
PhD student
BSc in Biology (University of Bern);
MSc in Biochemistry and Cancer Biology (University of Amsterdam)
adrienne.vancura@dbmr.unibe.ch
Sunandini Ramnarayanan
PhD student
BSc and MSc in Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Punjab,
Funded by SFI's Centre for Research Training (CRT) in Genomics Data Science and MSCA-INTEGRATE
sunandini.ramnarayanan[at]ucdconnect.ie
Dominik Meise
Bioinformatician
BSc in Biology (University of Bern);
MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (University of Bern)
dominik.meise[at]dbmr.unibe.ch
Ai Ming Tham
Research Assistant
BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology (University College Dublin)
Contact: thamaiming[at]gmail.com
Nivedha Balaji
PhD student
B.Sc. in Microbiology, University of Madras
MS in Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (IISER Mohali)
Sandra Zywssig
Research Assistant
Education: BSc in Biotechnology (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland); MSc in Biomedical Engineering (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Field: CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing of lncRNAs with functional characterization
Former Members
Carlos Pulido-Quetglas
PhD student
Where is he now? Postdoc with Dirk Fasshauer, University of Lausanne
Núria Bosch
PhD student
Where is she now? Postdoc with Jolanda van Leeuwen, University of Lausanne
Andrés Lanzós
Education: BSc in Biology (University of Vigo, Spain); MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Science (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain); PhD in Biomedical Sciences (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Field: Cancer genomics and LncRNA drivers identification
Projects: Bioinformatic analysis of lncRNAs implicated in cancer
Links: Google Scholar, LinkedIn, ORCID, Publons, ResearchGate, Twitter
Contact: andreslanzos@runbox.com
Where is he now? Bioinformatician at Biognosys
Alessandra Stuerchler
NCCR Predoc Programme
Education: BSc in Biology (University of Lausanne, Switzerland); MSc in Molecular Biology (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); NCCR RNA&Disease Predoc Program (University of Bern, Switzerland).
Field: Bioinformatics of lncRNA features and functional domains
Project: Relationship between exons and functional domains in lncRNAs.
Links: Linkedin
Contact: ale.stuerchler@gmail.com
Bernard Merlin
Education: BTech in Biotechnology (Anna University, India); MSc in Molecular Life Sciences (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Field: Bioinformatics of lncRNA features and functional domains
Project: Validation of cancer driver lncRNAs with CRISPRa
Contact: bernard.merlin@students.unibe.ch
Chantal Bachmann
MSc student
David Mas
MSc student
Kyriakos Schwarz
MSc student
Education: BSc in Computer Science (University of Applied Sciences FHNW, Switzerland); MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Field: Cancer genomics and LncRNA drivers identification
Projects: Bioinformatic analysis of lncRNAs implicated in cancer
Links: LinkedIn
Contact: kyriakos.schwarz@students.unibe.ch
Joana Carlevaro
PhD student and PostDoc
Education: BSc in Human Biology (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain); MSc in Bioinformatics for Health Science (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain); PhD in Classification and Functional Prediction of LncRNAs (Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern)
Field: Bioinformatics and genomics, lncRNA features, RNA expression
Projects: Characterisation and classification of lncRNAs
Links: ResearchGate, LinkedIn, ORCID
Contact: joana.carlevaro@dbmr.unibe.ch
Where is she now? Bioinformatician in Didier Trono's lab at EPFL.
Judith Bergadà
MSc student
Education: BSc in Industrial Technology Engineering (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain); MSc in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Field: Analysis of CRISPR-Cas9 screenings
Projects: Bioinformatic design of pipelines for CRISPR-Cas9 screening analysis
Contact: judith.bergadapijuan@students.unibe.ch
Mina Zamani
Visiting scientist
Education: BSc in Cellular and Molecular Biology-Genetics (University of Shahrekord, Iran); MSc in Genetics (Tarbiat Modares University, Iran)
Field: Study of the expression and function of lncRNAs implicated in cancer
Projects: Functional characterization of lncRNA using CRISPR-Cas system
Links: Google Scholar, ResearchGate
Contact: mina.zamani@dbmr.unibe.ch
Monalisa Das
Visiting scientist
Monica Torres
MSc student
Tatjana Zoller
MSc student
Education: BSc in Biochemestry (University of Bern, Switzerland); MSc in Molecular Life Science (University of Bern, Switzerland)
Field: lncRNA localization
Projects: Functional characterization of lncRNA based on localization
Contact: tatjana.zoller@students.unibe.ch