HAB Research Seminar: Bence Kövér

Title: Single-Cell Genomics Approaches for Dissecting Cell Type Identity in the Pituitary Gland

Speaker: Bence did his undergrad at UCL in Biological Sciences with a year abroad at Caltech, where he got interested in quantitative approaches applied to single-cell biology. In his Master’s thesis at UCL, Bence discovered and characterised a naturally occurring mutation in fission yeast, which triggers a transition to multicellularity. Bence is currently a Wellcome Trust PhD student at King’s College London in Cynthia Andoniadou’s lab, working on dissecting cell type identity in the pituitary gland using novel experimental and computational tools.

Relevant workstreams: Transcriptomics and spatial transcriptomics, Genomics and epigenomics

Relevant application areas: Developmental Biology,  Cancer Biology