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Computational Biology

Exploiting bioinformatics approaches, tools and databases efficiently

In addition to heading the Computational Biology platform, Michael Stadler is an FMI staff scientist and pursues independent research within the institute and with external collaborators.

Modern biomedical research produces vast amounts of data, and the number of bioinformatics approaches and databases increases at a high rate. We collaborate with FMI scientists to exploit these tools efficiently. Our strongest expertise lies in the analysis and interpretation of high-throughput sequencing data such as data from (single cell) RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Bis-seq and HiC experiments.

We also provide a bioinformatics help-desk and a computational infrastructure for biologists. Our aim is to train young researchers to become competent and independent. Therefore, we focus on providing solutions based on free and open-source software, allowing the scientists to continue their own bioinformatics research even after leaving the FMI.

We are members of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, and in collaboration with the Bioinformatics core of the Department of Biomedicine we teach courses and lectures at the University of Basel.

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Michael Stadler: Platform head, computational biol & group leader

Nahar S, Morales Moya LJ, Brunner J, Hendriks GJ, Towbin B, Hauser YP, Brancati G, Gaidatzis D, Großhans H (2024) Dynamics of miRNA accumulation during C. elegans larval development.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 May 22;52(9):5336-5355

Anneser L, Satou C, Hotz HR, Friedrich RW (2024) Molecular organization of neuronal cell types and neuromodulatory systems in the zebrafish telencephalon.

Curr Biol. 2024 Jan 22;34(2):298-312.e4

Hamelin B, Obradovic MMS, Sethi A, Kloc M, Münst S, Beisel C, Eschbach K, Kohler H, Soysal S, Vetter M, Weber WP, Stadler MB, Bentires-Alj M (2023) Single-cell Analysis Reveals Inter- and Intratumour Heterogeneity in Metastatic Breast Cancer.

J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia. 2023 Dec 8;28(1):26

Hadziselimovic F, Verkauskas G, Stadler MB (2023) Epigenetics, cryptorchidism, and infertility.

Basic Clin Androl. 2023 Sep 21;33(1):24

Charlotte Soneson , Vytautas Iesmantavicius, Daniel Hess, Michael B Stadler, Jan Seebacher (2023) einprot: flexible, easy-to-use, reproducible workflows for statistical analysis of quantitative proteomics data

Journal of Open Source Software, sept 2023 8(89), 5750

Welte T, Goulois A, Stadler MB, Hess D, Soneson C, Neagu A, Azzi C, Wisser MJ, Seebacher J, Schmidt I, Estoppey D, Nigsch F, Reece-Hoyes J, Hoepfner D, Großhans H (2023) Convergence of multiple RNA-silencing pathways on GW182/TNRC6.

Mol Cell. 2023 Jul 20;83(14):2478-2492.e8

Couto JP, Vulin M, Jehanno C, Coissieux MM, Hamelin B, Schmidt A, Ivanek R, Sethi A, Bräutigam K, Frei AL, Hager C, Manivannan M, Gómez-Miragaya J, Obradovic MM, Varga Z, Koelzer VH, Mertz KD, Bentires-Alj M (2023) Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase sustains a core epigenetic program that promotes metastatic colonization in breast cancer.

EMBO J. 2023 Jul 3;42(13):e112559

Amante RJ, Jehanno C, De Silva D, Coissieux MM, Ackerknecht M, Romanet V, Sethi A, Hamelin B, Preca BT, Piscuoglio S, Ng CKY, Mohseni M, Bentires-Alj M (2023) PI3K inhibition circumvents resistance to SHP2 blockade in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia. 2023 Jun 9;28(1):13

Kessler S, Minoux M, Joshi O, Ben Zouari Y, Ducret S, Ross F, Vilain N, Salvi A, Wolff J, Kohler H, Stadler MB, Rijli FM (2023) A multiple super-enhancer region establishes inter-TAD interactions and controls Hoxa function in cranial neural crest.

Nat Commun. 2023 Jun 5;14(1):3242

Soneson C, Bendel AM, Diss G, Stadler MB (2023) mutscan-a flexible R package for efficient end-to-end analysis of multiplexed assays of variant effect data.

Genome Biol. 2023 Jun 1;24(1):132

Suppinger S, Zinner M, Aizarani N, Lukonin I, Ortiz R, Azzi C, Stadler MB, Vianello S, Palla G, Kohler H, Mayran A, Lutolf MP, Liberali P (2023) Multimodal characterization of murine gastruloid development.

Cell Stem Cell. 2023 Jun 1;30(6):867-884.e11

Auf der Maur P, Trefny MP, Baumann Z, Vulin M, Correia AL, Diepenbruck M, Kramer N, Volkmann K, Preca BT, Ramos P, Leroy C, Eichlisberger T, Buczak K, Zilli F, Okamoto R, Rad R, Jensen MR, Fritsch C, Zippelius A, Stadler MB, Bentires-Alj M (2023) N-acetylcysteine overcomes NF1 loss-driven resistance to PI3Kα inhibition in breast cancer.

Cell Rep Med. 2023 Apr 18;4(4):101002

Vogg MC, Ferenc J, Buzgariu WC, Perruchoud C, Sanchez PGL, Beccari L, Nuninger C, Le Cras Y, Delucinge-Vivier C, Papasaikas P, Vincent S, Galliot B, Tsiairis CD (2022) The transcription factor Zic4 promotes tentacle formation and prevents epithelial transdifferentiation in Hydra.

Sci Adv. 2022 Dec 23;8(51):eabo0694

Kaluscha S, Domcke S, Wirbelauer C, Stadler MB, Durdu S, Burger L, Schübeler D (2022) Evidence that direct inhibition of transcription factor binding is the prevailing mode of gene and repeat repression by DNA methylation.

Nat Genet. 2022 Dec;54(12):1895-1906

Hadziselimovic F, Verkauskas G, Stadler M (2022) A novel role for CFTR interaction with LH and FGF in azoospermia and epididymal maldevelopment caused by cryptorchidism.

Basic Clin Androl. 2022 Jun 21;32(1):10

Machlab D, Burger L, Soneson C, Rijli FM, Schübeler D, Stadler MB (2022) monaLisa: an R/Bioconductor package for identifying regulatory motifs.

Bioinformatics. 2022 Apr 28;38(9):2624-2625

Ferenc J, Papasaikas P, Ferralli J, Nakamura Y, Smallwood S, Tsiairis CD (2021) Mechanical oscillations orchestrate axial patterning through Wnt activation in Hydra.

Sci Adv. 2021 Dec 10;7(50):eabj6897

Methot SP, Padeken J, Brancati G, Zeller P, Delaney CE, Gaidatzis D, Kohler H, van Oudenaarden A, Großhans H, Gasser SM (2021) H3K9me selectively blocks transcription factor activity and ensures differentiated tissue integrity.

Nat Cell Biol. 2021 Nov;23(11):1163-1175

Shimada Y, Carl SH, Skribbe M, Flury V, Kuzdere T, Kempf G, Bühler M (2021) An enhancer screen identifies new suppressors of small-RNA-mediated epigenetic gene silencing.

PLoS Genet. 2021 Jun 22;17(6):e1009645

Gudipati RK, Braun K, Gypas F, Hess D, Schreier J, Carl SH, Ketting RF, Großhans H (2021) Protease-mediated processing of Argonaute proteins controls small RNA association.

Mol Cell. 2021 Jun 3;81(11):2388-2402.e8

Song S, Cao C, Choukrallah MA, Tang F, Christofori G, Kohler H, Wu F, Fodor BD, Frederiksen M, Willis SN, Jackson JT, Nutt SL, Dirnhofer S, Stadler MB, Matthias P (2021) OBF1 and Oct factors control the germinal center transcriptional program.

Blood. 2021 May 27;137(21):2920-2934

Olivieri D, Castelli E, Kawamura YK, Papasaikas P, Lukonin I, Rittirsch M, Hess D, Smallwood SA, Stadler MB, Peters AHFM, Betschinger J (2021) Cooperation between HDAC3 and DAX1 mediates lineage restriction of embryonic stem cells.

EMBO J. 2021 Apr 28;:e106818

Hadziselimovic F, Verkauskas G, Stadler MB (2021) Molecular clues in the regulation of mini-puberty involve neuronal DNA binding transcription factor NHLH2.

Basic Clin Androl. 2021 Mar 18;31(1):6

Kitazawa T, Machlab D, Joshi O, Maiorano N, Kohler H, Ducret S, Kessler S, Gezelius H, Soneson C, Papasaikas P, López-Bendito G, Stadler MB, Rijli FM (2021) A unique bipartite Polycomb signature regulates stimulus-response transcription during development.

Nat Genet. 2021 Mar;53(3):379-391

Iurlaro M, Stadler MB, Masoni F, Jagani Z, Galli GG, Schübeler D (2021) Mammalian SWI/SNF continuously restores local accessibility to chromatin.

Nat Genet. 2021 Mar;53(3):279-287

Soneson C, Srivastava A, Patro R, Stadler MB (2021) Preprocessing choices affect RNA velocity results for droplet scRNA-seq data.

PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Jan 11;17(1):e1008585

Lukonin I, Serra D, Challet Meylan L, Volkmann K, Baaten J, Zhao R, Meeusen S, Colman K, Maurer F, Stadler MB, Jenkins J, Liberali P (2020) Phenotypic landscape of intestinal organoid regeneration

Nature. 2020 Oct;586(7828):275-280

Soneson C, Marini F, Geier F, Love MI, Stadler MB (2020) ExploreModelMatrix: Interactive exploration for improved understanding of design matrices and linear models in R.

F1000Res. 2020;9:512

Cowan CS, Renner M, De Gennaro M, Gross-Scherf B, Goldblum D, Hou Y, Munz M, Rodrigues TM, Krol J, Szikra T, Cuttat R, Waldt A, Papasaikas P, Diggelmann R, Patino-Alvarez CP, Galliker P, Spirig SE, Pavlinic D, Gerber-Hollbach N, Schuierer S, Srdanovic A, Balogh M, Panero R, Kusnyerik A, Szabo A, Stadler MB, Orgül S, Picelli S, Hasler PW, Hierlemann A, Scholl HPN, Roma G, Nigsch F, Roska B (2020) Cell Types of the Human Retina and Its Organoids at Single-Cell Resolution

Cell. 2020 Sep 17;182(6):1623-1640.e34

Carl SH, Duempelmann L, Shimada Y, Bühler M (2020) A fully automated deep learning pipeline for high-throughput colony segmentation and classification

Biol Open. 2020 Jun 23;9(6)

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Platform/Service Head

In current position since 2007
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In current position since 2009
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Education

• PhD in Mathematics, Lund University
• MSc in Engineering Physics, Lund University


Alumni

External scientific collaborators

Anita Lerch (2011-2012, Bioinformatics specialist)

Postdoctoral fellows

Urszula Brykczynska Kunzmann (2019-2020, Postdoctoral fellow)
Sarah Carl (2015-2018, Postdoctoral fellow)
Atul Sethi (2015-2018, Postdoctoral fellow)
Dimosthenis Gaidatzis (2008-2009, Postdoctoral fellow)

Technical/Research associates

Tim Roloff (2016, Research associate in bioinformatics support)
Lukas Burger (2013-2015, Research associate, computational biology)
Christian Hundsrucker (2013-2014, Bioinformatics specialist)
Lukas Burger (2010-2013, Technical/Research associate)
Michael Rebhan (2005-2008, Head bioinformatics support)
Michael Stadler (2006-2007, Senior computational biologist)

Undergraduates

Maria Florescu (2013-2014, Undergraduate)
Jonathan Rameseder (2007, Undergraduate)
Matthias Haimel (2005-2006, Undergraduate)

Visiting scientists

Atul Sethi (2018-2021, Visiting scientist)
Megumi Onishi-Seebacher (2018, Visiting scientist)

Biography of Michael Stadler

Education

2004
PhD, Institute of Immunology, University of Berne, Switzerland
2001
MSc, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland
1999
MSc, Institute of Immunology, University of Berne, Switzerland

Positions held

2015-
Staff Scientist, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
2011-
Group leader, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), Switzerland
2006-
Head of Computational Biology, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland
2004-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
2003-2004
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Immunology, University of Berne, Switzerland

Honors

2015-2018
SystemsX.ch/Breast Cancer MetastasiX (co-PI)
2011-2014
SystemsX.ch/Sybit Fellowship (PI)
2010-2014
SystemsX.ch/Cell Plasticity (associate member)
2004
SNF Fellowship for Prospective Researchers
2003
DC Bank prize for research and development, Berne, Switzerland