Full Name
Simone Picelli
Job Title
Team Leader Single-Cell Genomics Platform
Company
Institute Ophthalmology Basel
Bio
Simone Picelli currently works as Team Leader in the Single Cell Genomics Platform at the Institute Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) in Basel, Switzerland. He obtained his PhD in Biotechnology from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2006 before moving to Stockholm for a first postdoc at the Karolinska Institute. After a short spell at the German Cancer research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, he returned to Stockholm in 2012 for a second postdoc at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) in the group of Rickard Sandberg. There he developed the Smart-seq2 and an in-house version of Tn5 Transposase for single-cell library preparation. In 2015 he joined the Eukaryotic Single Cell Genomics Facility that Rickard Sandberg and Sten Linnarsson opened at the Science for Life Laboratory (also in Stockholm).
Simone Picelli