Event time:
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Event description:
Mo Lotfollahi (Relation Therapeutics, Helmholtz Munich)
“Multi-scale generative modeling for single-cell genomics”
Background
Dr. Lotfollahi recently completed a PhD in Computational Biology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Helmholtz Munich under the supervision of Fabian Theis. They are also a member of ELLIS. He is the Director of Machine Learning Research at Relation Therapeutics in London and is a scientist at Helmholtz Munich. Additionally, he is an incoming faculty member at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Mo’s research primarily focuses on developing AI/ML algorithms for biomedical data, specifically emphasizing single-cell technologies for diagnostics, therapeutics, and drug discovery applications. He has received multiple awards for their research, as evidenced by their notable achievements, and has been featured in press and journals, as outlined in their research. Furthermore, Dr. Lotfollahi has been granted multiple fellowships, grants, and scholarships, including those from Joachim Hertz, EMBL, and Meta.