Francesca Finotello
Group Leader
Research interests: computational analysis of multi-omics data to inform precision and personalized medicine
Computational Biomedicine
Team
Computational Biomedicine Group
Markus Ausserhofer
PhD student
Research project: Computational prediction of non-canonical neoantigens in colorectal cancer (co-supervisor: Zlatko Trajanoski, Medical University of Innsbruck)
Lorenzo Merotto
PhD student
Research project: Benchmarking of cell-type deconvolution methods for nonhuman bulk transcriptomics (co-supervisor: Frank Edenhofer, University of Innsbruck)
Irene Rigato
PhD student
Research project: Computational analysis of cancer multiomics data to investigate B-cell malignant transformation
Constantin Zackl
Master's student and Student Assistant
Research project: Implementation of an R-based interface to computational methods for cell-type deconvolution of spatial transcriptomics
Maria Zopoglou
Master's student
Research project: Computational analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing data to quantify dynamic changes in cancer cell regulatory networks during treatment
Bernhard Eder
Student Assistant
Research project: Hierarchical deconvolution of bulk transcriptomics (co-supervisor: Philipp Zech, University of Innsbruck)
Felix Petschko
Master's student
Research project: Optimizing speed and scalability of immune cell clonotype clustering for large-scale datasets (co-supervisor: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, University of Innsbruck)
Katharina Huber
Master's student
Research project: Investigating the determinants of T-cell expansion in glioblastoma via single-cell RNA sequencing analysis
Katharina Schuler
Master's student
Research project: Single-cell informed deconvolution of brain organoids
Alumni
- Christina Schwaiger: Prediction and zero correction of gene expression measurements for spatial transcriptomics (Master's student; co-supervisor: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, University of Innsbruck)
- Luc Wirion: A consensus approach to cell-type deconvolution of bulk transcriptomics informed by multiple single-cell atlases (Bachelor's student)
- Mario Kanetscheider: Implementation of a Python-based pipeline for the analysis of single-cell B-cell receptor (Bachelor's student; co-supervisor: Mira Mutschlechner, MCI)
- Franziska Chiara Hörburger: Computational analysis of spatial transcriptomics data to investigate cell-cell colocalization patterns in the tumor microenvironment (Master's student; co-supervisor: Frank Edenhofer, University of Innsbruck)
- Tobias Ganzenhuber: Improving sequence clustering scalability for adaptive immune cell repertoire analysis (Bachelor's student; co-supervisor: Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez, University of Innsbruck)
- Maria Clara Staropoli: Prediction of drug response from tumor RNA sequencing data (Erasmus student; co-supervisor: Chiara Romualdi, University of Padova, Italy)
- Arianna Zuanazzi: Curation of a single-cell RNA-sequencing atlas of breast cancer (Erasmus student; co-supervisor: Barbara Di Camillo, University of Padova, Italy)
- Manuel Fiegl: Molecular genetic role of innate system mediated TLR3 signalling in zebrafish cardiac regeneration and proliferation (Master's student; co-supervisor: Dirk Meyer, University of Innsbruck)
- Max de Rooij: Mathematical modelling of T cell phenotype polarization (Master's student; co-supervisor: Federica Eduati, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Silvia Cremon: Computational deconvolution of tumor cellular composition from spatial transcriptomics data (Master's student; co-supervisor: Enrico Lavezzo, University of Padova, Italy)