Wednesday, November 30, 2022

CCMB Seminar: Luca Pinello, Ph.D.

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Palmer Commons, Forum Hall

"Computational methods to understand gene regulation and development"

Luca Pinello

Luca Pinello, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

Luca is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his BA,  MA and Phd in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Palermo in Italy. He had the good fortune to be part of the “omics” revolution and the opportunity to work on many computationally-challenging problems since he was an undergraduate student. During his postdoctoral research with Prof. Guo-Cheng Yuan at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard School of Public health he studied the role of chromatin structure in gene regulation and developed computational methods for single cell analysis and epigenomics. He has a background in computer science and extensive experience in machine learning, data mining and web technologies. His research program uses computational approaches to systematically analyze the sources of variation that affect gene regulation: epigenetic variation, genetic variation and (single-cell) gene expression variability. In his free time he likes to hike, to cook and roast green coffee and to do photography.