Research

• Milk microRNAs and human gene regulation

  Course: Computational Systems Biology · Zimmer · LMU · July – October 2026

  Curated published milk microRNA datasets, compared bovine and human sequences, and assessed evidence for human regulatory targets. Built a continuous Petri-net model of miR-146a-mediated inflammatory signaling and evaluated its behavior against published experimental data.

• Sex-specific gene regulation

  Course: Machine Learning for Regulatory Genomics · Gagneur · TUM · March – July 2026

  Fine-tuned Borzoi, a deep-learning model, to predict sex-specific gene expression from DNA sequence, identified regulatory motifs, and benchmarked variant effect predictions against known QTLs.

• Spatial transcriptomics of colon cancer

  Course: Systems Biomedicine · List · TUM · October 2025 – February 2026

  Developed a distance-weighted ligand–receptor inference method for colorectal cancer spatial transcriptomics data, incorporating spatial proximity into cell–cell communication predictions.

• Allele-specific expression pipelines

  Bachelor’s thesis · Evolutionary Biology · LMU · April – October 2025

  Built and benchmarked Snakemake and Nextflow pipelines for allele-specific expression analysis of Drosophila bulk RNA-seq data, and reimplemented a core tool in Go.