Dr. Hagen Tilgner studied computer science in Germany and France, and after a Master’s thesis (for the French ENSIMAG) at the Sanger Institute (UK), did his Ph.D. with Roderic Guigó at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain. There, he focused on RNA and the co-transcriptionality of splicing. Next, his postdoctoral work at Stanford with Michael Snyder focused on technology development, specifically for long-read transcriptomics. He started his lab at Weill Cornell in New York City in 2016 focusing on technologies to decipher the actions of RNA isoforms in the brain. The lab is a multi-disciplinary lab, including wet-lab technology development, dry-lab approaches, as well as combined large-scale efforts centered on the brain. Lab members combine mathematics and computer science, molecular biology, and neuroscience backgrounds to further our understanding of isoforms in healthy and diseased brain of humans and model organisms.

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