About me
I am a bioinformatician working in (single-cell) epigenomics and cancer. Currently, I am working as a group leader at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) located in Heidelberg, Germany within the Division of Cancer Epigenomics. My CV is available as a PDF here.
Employments
- 2016-2020: PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and Saarland University, Saarbrücken,Germany
- 2021-2023: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
- Since 2024: Group Leader at the DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Education
- 2011-2014: Bachelor studies Computational Biology at Saarland University
- 2014-2016: Master studies Computational Biology at Saarland University
Selected Publications
- Müller, F., Scherer, M., Assenov, Y., Lutsik, P., et al. (2019). RnBeads 2.0: comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data. Genome Biology, 20(1), 55, doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1664-9.
- Scherer, M., et al. (2020). Quantiative Comparison of Within-Sample Heterogeneity Scores for DNA Methylation Data. Nucleic Acids Research, 48(8), e46, doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaa120.
- Scherer, M., et al. (2020). Reference-free deconvolution, visualization and interpretation of complex DNA methylation data using DecompPipeline, MeDeCom and FactorViz. Nature Protocols, 15, 3240-3263, doi: 10.1038/s41596-020-0369-6.
- Bianchi, A., Scherer, M., et al. (2022). scTAM-seq enables targeted high-confidence analysis of DNA methylation in single cells, Genome Biology, 23, 229, doi: 10.1101/2022.04.11.487648.
- Scherer, M., Singh, I., et al. (2024). Somatic epimutations enable single-cell lineage tracing in native hematopoiesis across the murine and human lifespan, BioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2024.04.01.587514.
For a full list of publications, see my Google Scholar account.