Andrea Tanzer

Andrea Tanzer is a researcher at the Max Perutz Labs, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Her work focuses on RNA biology, particularly RNA structure and function, non-coding RNA, and bioinformatics tools for genomic analysis. She leads the RNALands project (2015–2019), developing methods for RNA folding landscape analysis. Her research contributes to understanding RNA editing mechanisms, epigenetic regulation, and host-pathogen interactions.

Key research interests include RNA structure prediction, transcriptome-wide analyses, and the role of RNA modifications in gene regulation. Tanzer has presented on topics such as RNA bioinformatics, structureomics, and G-quadruplexes in RNA. Her work bridges computational methods and experimental biology, with applications in both fundamental science and biomedical diagnostics.

Notable contributions include the RNAxplorer tool for RNA structure sampling and collaborations on the GENCODE project. Media highlights include coverage of her work on mouse genome applications for human diagnostics.