Douglas Wightman

Postdoctoral researcher

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    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR)
    Department of Complex Trait Genetics
    Research Building
    De Boelelaan 1100
    1081 HZ Amsterdam
    The Netherlands

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Short CV

2024-present Postdoctoral Researcher VU University
2019-2024 PhD candidate VU University
2017-2018 MRes Medical Genetics Newcastle University
2016-2017 Fermentation Scientist NREL
2013-2016 BSc Molecular and Cellular Biology Newcastle University

Research

Increasingly large samples sizes in genome wide association studies (GWAS) have increased the number of significantly associated variants and increased the workload for analysts attempting to identify the functional relationships connecting the variants to the traits of interest. My aim is to develop pipelines that integrate novel and existing tools to streamline the analytical process, from raw data to functional understanding, to make genetic analysis more accessible.