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SCIENTIFIC FOCUS AREAS
transcriptional regulation, enhancers, promoters, genomics, transcriptomics, machine learning, variant-to-function
RESEARCH VISION
The Andersson lab focuses on modeling gene regulation to gain insights into molecular mechanisms by which enhancer or promoter dysregulation contributes to disease risk.
We take an interdisciplinary approach and combine machine learning, statistical learning, genetics, and molecular biology to:
Learn more about our research (lab website), software (GitHub), or browse our publications (Google scholar).
Name: Robin Andersson
Title: Associate Professor of Computational Biology, PhD
Nationality: Swedish
ORCID: 0000-0003-1516-879X
Lab website: https://anderssonlab.org
Lab GitHub: https://github.com/anderssonlab
SCIENTIFIC FOCUS AREAS
transcriptional regulation, enhancers, promoters, genomics, transcriptomics, machine learning, variant-to-function
EDUCATION
Nov 2010 Awarded PhD in Bioinformatics at the Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden. PhD supervisors: Prof. Jan Komorowski, Prof. Jan Dumanski and Prof. Claes Wadelius. Research focused on computational analyses of chromatin and chromosomal aberrations. PhD studies resulted in 18 publications in scientific journals.
Jun 2004 Awarded Master of Science in Computer Science, Institute of Technology, Linköping University, Sweden. Main study profile was theoretical Computer Science with a focus on Machine Learning.
CURRENT POSITIONS
Sep 2024 - Associate professor (UCPH promotion programme to professor) at the Section for Computational and RNA Biology, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen. The lab focuses on modeling gene regulation to gain insights into molecular mechanisms by which enhancer or promoter dysregulation contributes to disease risk.
2021 - Visiting researcher at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2020 – 2024 Associate professor at Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2015 – 2020 Tenure-track assistant professor at Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2010 – 2015 Postdoctoral research fellow at Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the group of Prof. Albin Sandelin. Research primarily focused on transcriptional regulation via enhancers and the biogenesis and decay of enhancer RNAs. Research resulted in 22 primary research publications in scientific journals.
2004 Research Assistant at The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala University, Sweden. Work mainly focused on development of a functional genomics toolkit for machine learning and creating a new undergraduate course in Artificial Intelligence for Bioinformatics.
AWARDS
2015 ERC Horizon 2020 starting grant award
2016 Sapere Aude Research leader award
2020 Hallas-Møller Ascending Investigator award
SUPERVISION AND TEACHING
17 graduated MSc students and 5 graduated PhDs from the lab. Current group: 1 Assistant professor, 2 Postdocs, 3 PhD students, 1 lab technician.
2015 – Lecturer – Genome Sequence Analysis, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Course responsible since 2016.
2019 – Lecturer – Advanced Bioinformatics for Next Generation Sequencing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
2022 – PhD coordinator at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2018 – 2021 Member of BIO-SFU (chair as of September 2019), the strategic research board at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2017 – 2023 Representative of Section for Computational and RNA Biology in the Biocenter Office Committee at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
REVIEWING ACTIVITIES
2016-2024 Member of 6 PhD assessment commitees in Denmark and Sweden.
2015-2024 External referee for H2020 European Research Council, French National Research Agency (ANR), Medical Research Council UK.
Referee for >30 manuscripts in scientific journals including: Nature Genetics, EMBO Journal, Genetics, Genome Biology, Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Nature Communications, Genome Research, Transcription, RNA Biology, BioEssays, Oncogene.
MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
2021 – Partner in the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease at Broad Institute (https://www.broadinstitute.org/nnfc), a Novo Nordisk Foundation bridgehead center between the Broad Institute and Danish researchers investigating the genetics and gene regulation of common complex diseases.
2020 – Member of ENHPATHY (https://www.enhpathy.eu/), an ERC MCSA-ITN bringing together expertise on enhancer biology, epigenomics, bioinformatics and medical genetics to increase scientific knowledge on the molecular basis of human enhanceropathies and to open new diagniostic and therapeutic avenues for patients.
2015 – Member of FANTOM5 and FANTOM6 consortia (https://fantom.gsc.riken.jp/), worldwide collaborative projects aiming at identifying all functional elements in mammalian genomes.
INVITED KEYNOTE TALKS AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
GRANTS
BIBLIOMETRICS
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Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=D8RKCXsAAAAJ
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