Invited speakers

Pedro Beltrao has a Biochemistry degree from University of Coimbra (2002) and a PhD in Biology from the University of Aveiro for research conducted at EMBL-Heidelberg under the supervision of Luis Serrano (2007). He did his postdoctoral research at the University of California San Francisco under the supervision of Prof. Nevan Krogan (2008-2012). He was a group leader at EMBL-EBI from 2013 to 2021 and he is now an Associate Professor at the Department of Biology, ETH Zurich since Jan 2022. His research group studies the molecular sources of phenotypic novelties, exploring how DNA changes are propagated through structures and interactions to give rise to phenotypic variability."