Frontiers in Health Sciences seminar

Frontiers in Health Sciences is a seminar series organized by the doctoral programmes of Faculty of Health Sciences and it is targeted to researchers, teachers and students. 

The seminar series continues with a lecture by Professor Päivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD from UCLA with the topic: Integrating single cell omics data with biobank data to identify genes and biomarkers for cardiometabolic disorders.

I am Päivi Pajukanta, MD, PhD, Professor of Human Genetics, and recipient of The Diller-von Furstenberg Family Endowed Chair in Precision Clinical Genomics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. My research group is using integrative genomics approaches on multilayer genomics data, including single cell omics data, to identify cell-type-specific mechanisms underlying obesity and related cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes (T2D), dyslipidemia, and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). I am especially interested in 1) genomic studies of the admixed Mexican population that has been underrepresented in genomic studies despite their high predisposition to obesity, T2D, dyslipidemias, and MASLD; 2) development of computational approaches for complex traits; and 3) utilizing single cell and bulk level RNA-sequencing and ATAC-sequencing approaches to study gene-environment interactions contributing to cardiovascular and metabolic traits.

The seminar is hosted by UEF Metabolic Diseases Research Community.

The event will be held in English and is open to everyone interested. 

Welcome!

For further information, please contact Coordinator of Doctoral Programme in Molecular Medicine, email dpmm@uef.fi.