Alexandra+Vatsiou


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PhD Student

University of Grenoble Department of Biology BP 53, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

//email:// alex.vatsiou [at] gmail.com


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 * INTERCROSSING **
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INTERCROSSING Webpage [|INTERCROSSINGenetics] [|Twitter] || = Computational Biology = = & Bioinformatics =

I am a EU funded Marie Curie PhD student in the International Training Network (ITN) INTERCROSSING program. I started my PhD in population genetics and statistics in the University of Grenoble in France, I collaborated with the bioinformatic company Era7 in Granada, Spain for 7 months and I am now based in the School of Biology in the University of St Andrews.

Project: //**Genomic analysis using genome wide data**//

My goal is to detect signatures of positive selection on humans (SNPs, genes, pathways).I began my PhD with evaluating the existing methods to detect selection on complex structured population scenarios to investigate which of those perform the best under the same simulated data. Then, I used the best of them on real data from HapMap and I also conducted an enrichment analysis to investigate the pathways enriched for positive selection. Further analysis to examine the genes and gene sets associated with diabetes was made using Bio4j and String databases.

Research Interests
 * Computational Biology
 * NGS analysis
 * Optimization
 * Statistical genomics
 * Signalling Pathways
 * Metabolism, Cancer

Presentations


 * All the presentations from INTERCROSSING Group are in youtube in the INTERCROSSINGenetics channel.
 * My personal presentation can also be found [|here]

Outreach Activities
 * [|Article in IEEER8 to encourage students follow the field of bioinformatics]
 * [|Small article about plant research]
 * Talk to students in the University of Granada.

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