Michael Scherer
Group Leader at Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Scherer is a computational biology group leader at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg with a decade of experience bridging bioinformatics and epigenetics. He completed a PhD in Computational Biology at Universität des Saarlandes and progressed from postdoctoral work at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona to leading his own research group. His work focuses on single-cell genomics and the interplay between epigenetic regulation and cancer, combining algorithm development with experimental collaboration. Known for grounding computational methods in biological insight, he brings both rigorous academic training (magna cum laude) and practical leadership to translational cancer research. A Saarland native, he blends European research networks with hands-on expertise in single-cell analytical pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Biology, Magna cum laude at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (20)
package-management10
decomposition10
conda10
bioconductor10
bioinformatics10
heterogeneous10
bioconda10
orange7
pipeline5
visual-analytics5
visualization4
spatial3
single-cell-genomics3
topological-data-analysis3
genomics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MPIIComputationalEpigenetics/WSHScripts
Mar 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:54 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
epigen/RnBeads
May 2016 - Nov 2022
Git working Repo synced to the Bioconductor: http://bioconductor.org/packages/devel/bioc/html/RnBeads.html
Contributions:145 commits, 5 PRs, 121 pushes in 6 years 6 months
develbiocbioconductor
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