One-minute introduction

Every now and then, there’s a situation where I need to briefly introduce myself, academically. This can be with or without any visual support (i.e a slide). Instead of doing so semi-randomly, I though I would prepare such a one-minute introduction, once an for all. So here I go, with a nice illustrative heck-sticker slide and plenty of links.

• I am Laurent Gatto, professor of bioinformatics at the UCLouvain. I teach (more of my courses) at the Faculty of pharmacy and biomedical sciences and run a computation biology lab at the de Duve institute.

• The lab’s research focuses on developing statistical and machine learning methods to process, explore and comprehend high-dimensional biological data, such as typically produces by omics technologies. Working on the university biomedical campus, we deploy our work on clinically and biomedically relevant research projects, in collaboration with other laboratories on the campus.

• I am committed to the open, transparent and rigorous practice of scientific enquiry. In particular, we make every possible effort to make our research repeatable, reproducible and replicable.

• The development and publication of scientific software (see here, here and here) is an integral part of my work and is reflected by my contributions to the Bioconductor project. Some specific examples include spatial proteomics data analysis with pRoloc, single-cell proteomics with scp and mass spectrometry data processing with the R for Mass Spectrometry packages.

• I also serve on the Bioconductor technical advisory board, European Bioconductor Society, education and teaching committee and the Code of conduct committee, and co-organise the yearly European EuroBioc conference.