Sigurgeir Olafsson

PhD Student

Alumni

This person is a member of Sanger Institute Alumni.

A PhD student supervised by Drs Carl Anderson and Peter Campbell.

I study the effect of inflammatory bowel disease on the somatic mutation landscape of the colon and how somatic mutations might play a causal role in the development of the disease. I am also working on an association study aiming to identify germline copy-number variation that predisposes to the disease.

My timeline

• Officially started my PhD in the Anderson Lab

• Joined the Sanger institute

• BSc in computer science - University of Iceland

• MSc in biomedical science (population genomics) - deCODE Genetics and the University of Iceland

• BSc in molecular biology and biochemistry - University of Iceland