Gerda Cristal Villalba Silva
Postdoctoral ResearcherPostdoctoral Researcher
Gerda Cristal Villalba Silva is a biologist with master and PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Graduate program on Genetics and Molecular Biology at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Brazil. During master and PhD, she worked with bioinformatics pipelines and tools to understand Inborn errors of metabolism, like lysosomal storage diseases. Before joining Dr. Chen’s lab, Cristal has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Bioinformatics Core from Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil. Her research in Chen lab focuses on multi-omics analysis, RNA-seq and single cell analysis.