Kickstarting at the Utrecht University

I am excited to announce that Bhardwaj lab would open its doors at the biology department of the Utrecht University from the 1st of Feb 2024. I am appointed as an assistant professor at the Institute of Biodynamics and Biocomplexity, where our lab will work closely with the divisions of Bioinformatics, Developmental Biology, and Genome Biology/Epigenetics.

Projects

Following the general research interest of our lab, our projects shall focus on the following areas:

• Data Engineering: Developing optimal preprocessing workflows for data from in-house and public single-cell omics technologies.
• Data Science: Building statistical/machine learning models for the prediction of a cell’s gene expression state using its chromatin state.
• Software Development: Developing user-friendly bioinformatic tools for the exploration of quantitative (single-cell/single-molecule) genomics data.
• Data-driven Biology: Integrating in-house and publicly available data and applying statistical analysis to study the role of transcription factor-chromatin interactions in defining cell fates during embryonic development.

Open positions

We have possibilities for PhD and master projects within our group, and in future we plan to expand. If the topic of our research excites you, feel free to check out our open positions.