Dr. Melanie Schirmer (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
Meet the Prof
Monday, 2nd September 2019, 12:00 pm
Center for Molecular Biosciences (ZMB)
Seminar room ground floor
Am Botanischen Garten 11
the CRC 1182 guest
Dr. Melanie Schirmer
will answer your questions at
CRC 1182 Women’s Lunch
The CRC 1182 invited Melanie Schirmer, Computational Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard working in the group of Ramnik Xavier.
She will give a talk within the framework of the Biological Colloquium on September 2nd at 4:30 pm. Furthermore, all female researchers are invited to meet her at 12:00 pm for a Women’s Lunch. She will shortly present her career path and which decision she had to make and would like to discuss with you the problems and difficulties of women in research. We hope many of you will join the discussion.
Short CV
| July 2018 – pesent | Computational Scientist, Xavier Lab, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| Jan 2015 – June 2018 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Xavier and Huttenhower Groups, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Oct 2010 – Oct 2014 |
PhD, Water Research Group, University of Glasgow, Dissertation title: Algorithms for Viral Haplotype Reconstruction and Bacterial Metagenomics: Resolving Fine-Scale Variation in Next Generation Sequencing Data |
| May 2010 – July 2010 |
Unilever R&D, Colworth, UK |
| April 2010 – May 2010 |
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Feb 2006 – Feb 2007 |
University of Technology Sydney, Australia |
| Oct 2003 – June 2009 |
University of Bonn, Bachelor and Masters in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science |
