And finally, a big round of applause for our first place travel grant winner, Dr. Catarina Correia! She researches protein interaction networks in autism spectrum disorders and presented her recent results at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Toronto, ON last month. We’re glad the travel grant helped her attend!
I am currently pursuing a post-doctoral project at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência and Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge (Portugal) working on the analysis of GWAS carried out by the Autism Genome Project (AGP), a large international consortium for autism genetics. My research aims to develop a network-based approach for GWAS data analysis by combining association results with protein-protein interaction data, and characterize potentially pathogenic CNVs identified in the AGP whole genome CNV analysis. Read more…
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