David’s Ph.D. work was on the gene expression analysis of stem cells and their development in dendritic cells. He gained significant experience in processing data from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, database development, and text mining.
David will be half in the Butte lab, and half in the lab of Martin Angst in the Department of Anesthesia. He will be working on bioinformatics methods to find and compare gene expression datasets from GEO, as well as studying the role of inflammation in acute and chronic pain, finding genes and gene variants associated with pain across all diseases.
David comes to us from the Cell Biology department in the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, in Aachen University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. He was working in the laboratory of Professors Zenke, Hofmann-Apitius, and Seidl, where he is about to be awarded his Ph.D.
David received his Masters Degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Toulouse, France. There he worked to build a database of nuclear receptors.
David has had a significant publication history as a graduate student. David’s first-authored publications include papers in Nucleic Acids Research, Stem Cells, and Cell Immunology. In addition, David was a middle-author on major papers on stem cells which appeared in Cell (2009) and Nature (2008), as well two other co-authored papers.