User:Micha
Post-doc
- email: micha.hersch at unil.ch
- personal web page: http://wwwpeople.unil.ch/micha.hersch/
Research
I am involved in the Plant Growth project from SystemsX.ch. I mainly try to model the gene regulatory network of the shade avoidance mechanism in the model plant Arabidopsis Thaliana. I am also involved in modeling the mechanism of cell size determination in the fission yeast.
I developed HypoPhen, an image analysis software for the semi-automatic phenotyping of Arabidopsis seedlings and Cellophane, an ImageJ plugin for the semi-automatic extraction of flourescent-tagged protein profiles along the cell membrane.
I also did some genome-wide data analysis related to human genetics, for example Genome Wide Association Studies, and another one showing the higher resilience of females to the mutational burden in genes involved in neuro-developmental disorders suc has autism (see here).
My scientific interests include dynamical systems theory, self-organization, statistical learning theory and large-scale biological data analysis. For additional information, you can consult my web page.
I did my ph.D at the lasa (EPFL), where I worked on bio-inspired motor control and artificial cognition for humanoid robots. See this page for more details on this.
And before this, I worked on automatic speech recognition at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
Academic titles
- 2009: Phd in cognitive robotics, LASA, EPFL
- 2004: Master in cognitive science, Université Paris VI
- 2003: Master in computer science, EPFL
Publications
Look here
Teaching and outreach
- I am coordinating the UNIL BSc course: "Solving Biological Problems that require Math"
- I co-organized the SPSW 2012 summer school exercise session
- I also visit schools and tell them about medical genetics as part of the gene days
