Oliver Stegle

Our interest lies in computational approaches to unravel the genotype– phenotype map on a genome-wide scale. How do genetic background and environment jointly shape phenotypic traits or causes diseases? How are genetic and external factors integrated at different molecular layers, and how variable are these molecular readouts between individual cells?

We use statistics as our main tool to answer these questions. To make accurate inferences from high-dimensional ‘omics datasets, it is essential to account for biological and technical noise and to propagate evidence strength between different steps in the analysis. To address these needs, we develop statistical analysis methods in the areas of gene regulation, genome wide association studies (GWAS) and causal reasoning in molecular systems.