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Assistant professor / Senior research scientist in Machine Learning and Bioinformatics
Enrico Glaab is Deputy Course Director for the Master in Integrated Systems Biology and Principal Investigator of the Biomedical Data Science group (Glaab Lab). As a member of the Research Team in the National Centre of Excellence in Research on Parkinson’s Disease (NCER-PD) he works on the sub-projects Data & Analytics and Biomarkers & Mechanisms .
His research is centered around the development and application of software tools for the analysis of molecular, clinical and neuroimaging data for complex diseases, in particular for the neurodegenerative disorders Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Key focus areas cover the design of graph-based algorithms to identify disease-associated perturbations in cellular processes and molecular sub-networks (software tools EnrichNet and GenePEN), machine learning methods to discover robust discriminative features for diagnostic biospecimen classification (software tools ArrayMining , PathVar , RepExplore, and approaches for network-guided candidate disease gene prioritization (software tools PathExpand and TopoGSA).
Dr. Glaab is pleased to consider applications from prospective PostDocs or PhD students in bioinformatics. Students interested in pursuing a master’s degree at the interface of computational and experimental biology may want to consider our programme Master in Integrated Systems Biology.
