Dr Lara Bossini-Castillo

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Lara is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Trynka Lab. Lara’s research is focused in how human genetic variability shapes the control of the immune system and contributes to the onset of complex immune-related diseases. She is particularly interested in deciphering the functional meaning of the genetic polymorphisms that have been associated with autoimmune diseases in genome-wide association studies (GWAS).

I shifted towards immunogenomics after joining Prof. Javier Martín’s group (Granada, Spain) for PhD training in medical-population genetics with focus on complex immune traits. During my PhD, I studied the genetic basis of autoimmune diseases, with a particular emphasis on systemic sclerosis. In this period, I combined my background as a biologist and my training in immunology with my interests in informatics and addressed computationally driven research problems. I was a co-lead analyst in an Immunochip-based study in systemic sclerosis and several GWAS and GWAS follow-up studies in different diseases. These studies contributed to the identification of a number of genetic regions associated with autoimmune diseases.

As a Postdoctoral Fellow my main aim is to evolve from locus discovery towards identification of causal variants by using computational and functional genomics.

My timeline

• PostDoc in Computational Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• PhD in Medical Genetics, University of Granada

• MSc in Research and Advances in Molecular and Cellular Immunology, University of Granada

• BS in Biology, University of Granada (Spain)