User:Micha

Micha Hersch

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 develop HypoPhen, an image analysis software for the semi-automatic phenotyping of Arabidopsis seedlings.

I also work on a pharmacogenetics project trying to identify genes involved in the cardio-vascular response to beta-adrenergic stimulation in mice.

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

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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