December 3
We had the honor to host
Prof. Nuno Barbosa Morais, from GIMM, who was talking about
‘What transcriptomes tell us about stressed human cells’.
Short Bio
Nuno Barbosa-Morais is a computational biologist who graduated in Physics Engineering and completed a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2007) at the University of Lisbon. Most of the PhD research took place at the University of Cambridge with Sam Aparicio and involved bioinformatics studies on the evolution of splicing regulation. Nuno then became a research associate in Simon Tavaré’s group at the CRUK Cambridge Research Institute, where he focused on transcriptional regulation in the context of disease mechanisms, namely oncogenesis. Nuno joined Ben Blencowe’ lab at the University of Toronto in 2010 as an awardee of Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Marie Curie Fellowships. There he leveraged mRNA-seq data for the inference of tissue and species specific alternative splicing patterns. Nuno was awarded an EMBO Installation Grant to establish in 2015 at iMM Lisbon the Disease Transcriptomics Lab, which aims at understanding how transcriptional changes in human tissues increase proneness to disease, using bioinformatic analyses of genomes and transcriptomes. They also develop tools for assisting non-computational scientists in their analyses of transcriptomic data. Nuno is a Guest Associate Professor at the Lisbon Medical School, where he teaches Bioinformatics and Critical Thinking to Masters in Biomedical Engineering, Oncobiology and Biomedical Research.