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Deciphering the molecular mechanism of human disease using network based methods [IRB Research Nodes Seminar]

23 Nov 22

Speaker: Iñigo Barrio Hernández

Postdoc Fellow, EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, UK

 
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Host: Patrick Aloy

Node: Computational Biology  

Date: Wednesday 23 November 2022, 12.00h

Place: Serratosa Room

 

IMPORTANT: For attendees outside the PCB community you must register at least 24h before the seminar.

 

Abstract

Proteins that interact within molecular networks tend to have similar functions and when perturbed, influence the same organismal traits. Using an interactome to propagate starting signals coming from different sources we can generate profiles to do trait to trait comparaisons. We can also detect communities of proteins tightly interacting within each other, cores of cell signalling related with pathogenesis and likely hotspots of therapeutic targets. In this talk I will introduce two examples of the potential of network based methods to: establish a pleiotropy map of human disease using common genetic variation (GWAS) associated to more than 1000 traits, and increase our knowledge of the role of astrocytes in a neurodegenerative disease (ALS), integrating different omics data.

 

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