Pronounced “Shar-bel” (more precisely: /ˈʃɑːr.bɛl/)
[Common pronunciation in Lebanese and other Middle Eastern contexts]
Computational Biologist (in the making) | Researcher | Pediatric Neuro-Oncology | Translational Medicine | Spatial Biology Enthusiast
📍 Zürich, Switzerland
📧 [email protected]
🌐 LinkedIn
I started out as a classic wet-lab scientist — the pipette kind, not the laptop kind.
My early toolkit included:
- Western blots (yes, I’ve spilled milk)
- RT-qPCR
- Lentiviral transduction
- Cell culture marathons
- Creating Drosophila transgenic lines 🪰🪰🪰
- Microscope gymnastics for tiny dissections
- Taking fancy SEM -scanning electron microscopy- images of fly eyes (they are pretty)
I loved the hands-on work, the experiments, the troubleshooting-that-turns-into-career-therapy… all of it.
I jumped into a PhD exploring why some pediatric low-grade gliomas don’t respond to treatment.
This pulled me deep into the world of:
- Molecular profiling
- Bulk sequencing
- Spatial proteomics
- Single-nuclei multiome (RNA + ATAC)
This all happened despite me never taking a formal bioinformatics / CS / stats course.
Translation: I spent months googling what everyone else pretended to “just know.”
But I fell in love with computational biology — and now I can’t imagine doing research without it.
- Integrating multiome and spatial datasets to understand tumor evolution
- Learning to survive (and occasionally enjoy) R, and nextflow
- Trying to make sense of weird cell clusters 👀
- Slowly becoming the “tech” person in the lab even though I never meant to
🟢 ORCID
💻 Personal repos and publication --> coming soon ... ⏳
If you’re into brain tumors, spatial biology, multiomics, or just want to talk sci-comm, tech, or careers — feel free to reach out!