Award for NCoE-DG 2007 Full Fellowship 2nd Call

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Nordic Centre of Excellence in Disease Genetics has continued its effort to recruit young talents to join the Nordic research groups. The Centre is pleased to introduce four excellent young scientists awarded the Full Fellowship of Year 2007-2nd Call: Marloes Dekker Nitert, Anna Kiialainen, Monica Leu and Gholamreza Tavoosidana.

Marloes Dekker Nitert holds a Medical Licentiate degree from Linköping University and will defend her Ph.D. thesis from the Department of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University in November 2007. She will then join the group of Professor Leif Groop in Malmö and work with Dr. Charlotte Ling under co-supervision of Professor Juni Palmgren from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. The project ' The role of genetic and epigenetic factors in the development of type 2 diabetes ' focuses on the role of genetic and epigenetic factors in the development of type 2 diabetes. It also involves study of gene expression and metabolism in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue from monozygotic twin pairs.

Leu

Monica Leu is pursuing a PhD degree in Medical Sciences at the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. Her previous training was in Fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science & Statistics.
Her doctoral research project, 'Truncation and missing familial links in population-based registers', focuses on investigating the potential and limitations of population-based register data for understanding the etiology of diseases with familial aggregation, with dedicated attention to the effects of left-truncation of family history of disease due to registration start-up date and missing family links on estimates of familial association of disease. Her research interests include the etiology of complex diseases such as cancer or psychiatric disorders, and the contribution of genetic and environmental factors, as well as their interaction.
After accomplishing the PhD program, Monica Leu will join the research groups of Professor Leena Peltonen and Professor Juha Kere / Professor Juni Palmgren in Helsinki and Stockholm, respectively, for her postdoctoral training. She will work on the project ' Statistical analysis of multivariate (multi-center and/or longitudinal) genetic association data '.

Anna Kiialainen is currently a PhD student at the Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland. On completion of her PhD in October 2007, she will join the group of Professor Ann-Christine Syvänen at Uppsala University to work on ' Identification of regulatory genetic variation that affects drug response in acute leukaemia by new generation ultra high-throughput sequencing' in close collaboration with the Finnish Genome Center, directed by Professor Aarno Palotie.

Gholamreza Tavoosidana received his PhD degree in the Department of Genetics and Animal Development, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden in early 2007. During his PhD training, he worked under the supervision of Prof. Rolf Ohlsson on the following topic 'Epigenetic Regulation of Genomic Imprinting and Higher Order Chromatin Conformation'. He has published several scientific articles in top journals, such as Nature Genetics and PNAS.
Dr. Tavoosidana will join Professor Ulf Landegren's group in Uppsala and carry out the project ' Study of the DISC pathway and other molecular processes implicated in schizophrenia, by using the proximity ligation in situ technology'. The project also aims to engage collaboration efforts in schizophrenia/autism studies in Helsinki with Professor Leena Peltonen.

Area of Expertise: Molecular genetics, Epigenetics, Biochemistry, Cell biology

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Release date:

30 Aug 2007