Speakers

Rickard Sandberg is Professor in Molecular Genetics at the Karolinska Institutet, leading a research group focusing on understanding the mechanisms of gene regulation through improved measurements of gene expression with single-cell resolution. His lab is developing cutting-edge experimental and computational methods that are being used to address questions such as allele-specific expression, the allelic regulation of autosomes and sex chromosomes. Rickard received his PhD from Karolinska Institutet in 2004 (working with Ingemar Ernberg) and thereafter pursued a postdoc with Christopher Burge at MIT working on post-transcriptional gene regulation. In 2008, he got funding to start his own lab at Karolinska Institutet and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. In 2015, he became a Professor at the Karolinska Institute. He became an EMBO Young Investigator (2012), a Vallee Scholar (2015) and has received different Nordic prizes. More information is found on the lab website: (http://sandberg.cmb.ki.se/).