Mechthild Lütge, PhD

 

Bioinformatician with a specialization in:

  • Omics Data analysis
  • Immunology + Cancer biology

 

 

Interests: Sports, Mountains, Politics

 

 

2013

B.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology

Cellular regulation in Glioblastoma:

  • linear modelling of gene expression

2017

M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology

Specialization in Bioinformatics

University of Heidelberg (2010-2017)

Specialization in Bioinformatics

Bacterial pan-genomes:

  • functional annotation
  • co-occurrence analysis
  • selective pressure analysis

2018

2024

PhD at the University of Zurich

Cantonal hospital St.Gallen (2018-2024)

Bioinformatics, Immunology

Moved to St. Gallen

>30 projects:

scRNAseq (10X, smartSeq), scVDJ, spatial transcriptomics (Visium), microbiome data (16S) and metagenome data

Immune cell niches

  • Stromal cell niches across human and murine lymphoid organs
  • Cellular interactions in immune cell niches

Single cell transcriptomics:

  • pipeline for automated mapping/pre-processing
  • establish routines for independent data exploration and standardize analyses
  • data management

2024

Roche Pharma Research and Early Development  

Started as a Postdoc in Oncology Discovery

Tumor Archetypes in Solid Tumors

  • Machine learning models for tumor classification
  • Pathway-based tumor subtyping
  • Integration of transcriptome and image-derived features

Single cell and bulk RNAseq data, H&E imaging data, Clinical data and large real-world datasets

Now

Thank you!

Questions? 

Interview Basel

By Almut Luetge

Interview Basel

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