I’m Roni Altshuler, a biomolecular engineer, bioinformatician, and PhD student in the Ron-Harel Lab at the Technion.
Watching friends face cancer led me to study biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics at UC Santa Cruz. After working in genomics at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, I joined the Ron-Harel Lab at the Technion to study immunometabolism and aging.
I work across experimental biology and computation. My experience includes stromal cell and T-cell culture, flow cytometry, immunofluorescence, and confocal microscopy, alongside gene editing, sequencing, and computational workflows for single cell and spatial transcriptomics.
Outside the lab, I race endurance events and have played soccer my whole life. I also build software to explore my interests in sports and music.
Explore my software projectsSince 2025
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
I study immunometabolism and aging in the Ron-Harel Lab, combining experiments with lymph node stromal cells and T-cells with single cell and spatial analysis.
Current research2023 to 2024
University of California, Santa Cruz
Thesis: Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis of Cell Type Distribution and Gene Expression Patterns in a Human Breast Cancer Model
Master’s research2020 to 2023
University of California, Santa Cruz
Honors: Dean’s Honors List (2021, 2022, 2023)
Cell annotation, clustering, and spatial gene expression analysis in breast tumor imaging and immune cell research.
Cell segmentation, selection of training images, and analysis of spatial transcriptomics data.
Cell isolation, culture, staining, and imaging in my PhD research, with earlier experience in gene editing and cellular assays for T-cell and CAR T research.
Sequencing, quality control, and documented computational workflows for biological data.