T. Abbassi Daloii

Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Translational Genomics (TGX), School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.

 

Tooba Abbassi-Daloii earned her bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. She continued her academic journey at the same institution, completing a master’s degree in Molecular Genetics and Animal Biotechnology in 2011. Her research during this period focused on molecular cloning and gene expression analysis.

Tooba pursued her first Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Animal Biotechnology at Ferdowsi University, focusing on vaccine development through the design and evaluation of chimeric Brucella antigens. During this time, she undertook an internship at the Department of Human Genetics at LUMC under the supervision of Dr. Vered Raz and Prof. Dr. Peter-Bram ’t Hoen (September 2015 – June 2016). During this period, she investigated the effect of PABPN1 on polyadenylation site usage in internal gene regions, significantly enhancing her expertise in molecular biology and transcriptomics analysis. This work led to an offer to pursue a second Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at LUMC. Tooba successfully defended her first Ph.D. thesis in 2017.

In 2017, she started her second Ph.D. at LUMC under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Peter-Bram ’t Hoen, Dr. Vered Raz, and Dr. Hermien E. Kan. Her research focused on uncovering molecular drivers of skeletal muscle diversity using transcriptomics and bioinformatics approaches. She developed computational frameworks for analyzing gene expression data, alongside high-throughput staining techniques and advanced image processing and quantification methods.

Since 2022, Tooba has been a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Bioinformatics (BiGCaT), which recently merged with the Toxicogenomics (TGX) department at Maastricht University. She contributes to various bioinformatics projects, including the development of tools for data interoperability and multi-omics analysis. She has been contributing to initiatives such as WikiPathways, BridgeDb, and the FAIR Cookbook, while also leading projects including Omics FixID and BioDataFuse, aimed at advancing interoperability and knowledge graph construction. She is a dedicated member of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform, focusing on FAIR practices and FAIRification processes.