On September 1st, I will be starting my own group at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in Manhattan. My lab will be located at the Institute for Computational Biomedicine (ICB).
I have many exciting projects in mind, some of them will build on FIRE, FIRE-pro, PAGE and FastCompare, others are completely new. The overall goal will be to understand and predict cellular activity and regulation based on sequence (DNA, RNA and protein). The ultimate goal will be to develop translational research towards understanding diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative disorders (and I am particularly interested in investigating brain gene expression in order to study the latter) and malaria. Importantly, I will seek close collaborations with experimentalists, and in fact I already have started collaborating with some experimental groups there at Weill.
I also have funds to hire several postdoctoral scientists, so if you are interested in working with me, please send me an email at ole2001@med.cornell.edu
Congrats, Olivier!