May 20
We had the honor to host
Dr. Margarida Pinho from ITQB NOVA who gave a talk on
“Chromosome segregation dynamics during the cell cycle of Staphylococcus aureus“
and Dr. Uwe Ohler from MDC-BIMSB, who gave a talk on
“Machine Learning Approaches to Understand Gene Regulation “
Dr Margarida Pinho Short Bio
Dr Margarida Pinho Lopes is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Aveiro and a Visiting Academic in Geomechanics at the University of Southampton. She holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Porto and has conducted research in the UK between 2013 and 2019.
Her work focuses on geotechnics for transportation infrastructure, sustainable soil reinforcement using waste materials, nature-inspired micro-reinforcement solutions, and numerical modeling with geosynthetics. Margarida is active in international technical committees (ISO, CEN, IGS, ISSMGE) and has served on editorial boards of several geotechnical journals.
Dr Uwe Ohler Short Bio
Dr Uwe Ohler is a Professor at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, with joint appointments in Biology and Computer Science at Humboldt University. Trained in computer science and biology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, he earned his PhD in 2002 for pioneering work in computational promoter identification.
After a decade in the U.S., including faculty tenure at Duke University, he returned to Germany in 2012. His research focuses on gene regulation, machine learning, and data science in biology. Uwe has led major graduate training programs and currently coordinates the MDC’s cross-cutting area on Data Science & AI. He is a member of ELLIS and a fellow of the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data.