Research Seminar: Chris Clarkson and Arianna Tucci

The Genomics England Research Seminar series is a season of events held to demonstrate the best research from Genomics England and our partners. They started in October 2018, and are monthly, free-to-attend talks presented by Research Network members on the latest research being performed using data from the National Genomic Research Library.

This month's seminar speakers will be:

Chris Clarkson: 'Characterising structural variation in known repeat expansion loci across genetic ancestries and disease cohorts in the 100K genomes project'

Chris Clarkson is a Postdoc in computational biology at QMUL/UCL, he did his PhD in Epigenetics in the University of Essex. He is a member of Arianna Tucci’s lab and currently works on the identification and characterisation of disease causing repeat expansion loci using the Genomics England platform. He is generally interested in disease and the use of genomic data to gain insight of the molecular mechanisms of disease.

Arianna Tucci: 'Increased frequency of repeat expansion mutations in the general population'

Arianna Tucci is a Clinical Reader in Genomic Medicine at Queen Mary University of London and an Honorary Consultant in Clinical Genetics. Her primary research focus is neurogenetics, leveraging emerging genomic technologies to uncover the causes of rare genetic conditions, and translating these findings into improved diagnostics. In recent years, Arianna’s group developed an interest in analyzing short tandem repeats from short-read whole genome sequencing data, investigating their role in human diseases. This research draws on large-scale biomedical data from population studies, such as the UK Biobank, as well as patients with rare diseases, like those in the Genomics England project.

About the research seminars

The seminars will be held on the last Tuesday of each month at 2 to 3pm. These will be online sessions open to everyone and free to attend, we hope to have representation from across the Research Network, Discovery Forum and 100,000 Genomes Project participants as well as anyone else who would be interested in joining.

For updates on the seminars including announcements and speakers please follow the Genomics England twitter page. You can watch all previous Research Seminars on the Genomics England YouTube channel.

If you would like to present your research from the Genomics England Research Environment at one of these events please get in touch with the Research Management team at research-network@genomicsengland.co.uk and if you intend to publish on this research please include this so that we can publicise your paper on our Publications page.