Olá! My name is Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, I was born and raised in Florianópolis, Brazil. I am an Assistant Professor of Computational Biology at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi. I completed my PhD in Bioengineering at Caltech, where I focused on computational and experimental method development for single cell omics. Before joining MBZUAI I was a founding scientist at Retro Biosciences, a biotechnology startup focused on aging biology, and bioinformatics lead at ImYoo, a biotechnology startup leveraging single cell omics to advance patient-centric precision medicine.
Other links: Here is my MBZUAI faculty profile, my CV, my GitHub and LinkedIn.
My personal website is munfred.com.
My main research interest is on developing methods and tools for working with biological data generated by single cell omics technologies, which are key to advancing precision medicine. I am particularly interested in single cell RNA sequencing data, which is now being generated much faster than researchers can analyze it. I am establishing a research group to develop new methods and tools that can streamline biological analysis and make it easy to ask biological questions about the data for researchers of all backgrounds, and to explore the development of interactive analysis tools that incorporate recent advances in machine learning, such as natural language models, which can make biological analysis easier, faster and broaden access to more researchers.
I am currently recruiting a postdoctoral scholar to work with me at MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi on the development of computational methods and tools for processing and analyzing single cell omics data. Interest in collaboration, teaching and mentorship experience is highly valuable, as the MBZUAI computational biology department is very new, and we are in the intial steps of organizing many teaching and research initiatives in computational biology. For more details on my academic philosophy, see these statements I wrote suring my academic job search, and take a look at my May 2024 research talk, and if this interests you, do not hesitate to reach out to me at eduardo.beltrame at mbzuai.ac.ae.
Please note that I do not have bandwith to mentor students outside of MBZUAI. If you would like to work with me as a student, you need to have been accepted by a MBZUAI program - please do not write me a generic email asking to work with me or at MBZUAI (if you do, I will send you this link in response.
Please note: I am not hiring a research assistant at this time. I am only looking for a postdoctoral scholar, which requires having a PhD in hand.
If you are looking for permanent faculty positions, MBZUAI has an ongoing search for Open Rank Faculty in Computational Biology. Feel free to reach to me out if you have any questions.