Helena Crowell
Helena obtained her Ph.D. in Epidemiology & Biostatistics with Mark Robinson at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where she developed and benchmarked methods for single-cell and spatial omics data, and authored various R/Bioconductor packages. Late in her Ph.D., she visited with Holger Heyn in Barcelona, Spain, where she is now a postdoc, collaborating with clinicians and biotech companies to analyze spatial transcriptomics data in an immuno-oncology context. Aside from her research, Helena is a Bioconductor package reviewer, and current member of the project’s technical advisory board.
Naveed Ishaque
Naveed is a computer scientist who moved towards bioinformatics after becoming fascinated with the potential of genomics. He currently leads the Computational Oncology research group at the Berlin Institute of Health where his group aims to investigate biological heterogeneity in human diseases. In the last years he has shifted his focus to exploiting spatial transcriptomics, and in his talk he will describe his failures and success of how spatial transcriptomics data can be used of make sense of cells in space.
Jimmy Van den Eynden
Jimmy Van den Eynden completed his medical studies (MD) in 2003. He obtained a PhD in biomedical sciences in 2010 and an MSc in bioinformatics in 2013. Since 2013 he is performing cancer genomics research. He was a postdoc at Ghent University from 2013-2015 and at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) from 2015-2018. During this time, he also worked as an EMBO visiting scientist at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Since 2018 he’s an associate professor at Ghent University where he’s leading the lab of Computational Cancer Genomics and Tumor Evolution (CCGG).
