The Fall 2024 Biology Seminar Series continues with a talk from Dr. Noorsher Ahmed, "RNA + Robotics + Machine Learning." The seminar is on Tuesday, November 5th, at 12:00pm.
Dr. Noorsher (Noor) Ahmed鈥檚 research focuses on harnessing high-content optofluidic robotics and computer vision to investigate the flow of genetic information within cells at genome scale. By utilizing spatial transcriptomics and developing custom computer vision software, Noor aims to reveal insights into how the localization of RNA and protein molecules influence cellular decision making. During his PhD, Noor contributed to Bento and the scverse software ecosystem for single-cell genomics, and trained one of the fastest cell segmentation AI models in the field. Noor recently completed his PhD in Dr. Gene Yeo鈥檚 lab at UC San Diego, and he is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Emma Lundberg鈥檚 lab in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University. There, he is applying his expertise to facilitate large genome-scale perturbation experiments, employing high-content imaging to analyze a wide range of phenotypes. Broadly, Noor is passionate about scaling interrogations of cell biology in the real world to contribute to the development of virtual cell models in silico.