Prof. Katleen De Preter
- Full Professor
- Head of the Translational Onco-genomics and Bio-informatics lab
Contact
Campus Ardoyen, Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 75, 9052 Ghent
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Personalia
Biography
- 2011 - present: Professor - Ghent University
- 2004 - 2019: Postdoc - Ghent University
- 2004: PhD - Ghent University
- 2000: Master Bioscience Engineering - Ghent University
Member of
- VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology
- Advances in Neuroblastoma Research
- Cancer Research Institute Ghent
- International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Staging System
Research tracks
Expertise
- (Single-cell) genomics
- Bioinformatics
- (Liquid biopsy) biomarker research for pediatric and adult cancers
- Single cell analysis
- Biomarker studies
- DNA and RNA sequencing
- Computational deconvolution
Publications
Key publications
- SOX11 regulates SWI/SNF complex components as member of the adrenergic neuro- blastoma core regulatory circuitry. (2023) Nature Communications.
- Minimally invasive classification of paediatric solid tumours using reduced representation bisulphite sequencing of cell-free DNA: a proof-of-principle study. (2021) Epigenetics.
- Benchmarking of cell type deconvolution pipelines for transcriptomics data. (2020) Nature Communications.
- In silico discovery of a FOXM1 driven embryonal signaling pathway in therapy resistant neuroblastoma tumors. (2018) Scientific Reports.
- TBX2 is a neuroblastoma core regulatory circuitry component enhancing MYCN/FOXM1 reactivation of DREAM targets. (2018) Nature Communications.