PLEIOTROPY LAB

ABOUT ME


Hi, I am Sander Lamballais.


I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Clinical Genetics department of the Erasmus MC.


My goal is to understand how the brain changes over a lifetime, and how function and disease stems from the biology of the brain.

I teach two courses of Genomics in Society (M.Sc.):

  • Research Design (8 ECTS, year 1)

  • Statistical Concepts in Genomics (5 ECTS, year 2)


Feel free to reach out if you:

  • want to collaborate or need a peer reviewer

  • want to learn more about genetics or neuroimaging

  • have questions about my work

RESEARCH LINES

Causes and consequences
of lifespan brain health

How is neurodevelopment influenced by factors like genetics, lifestyle, and psychiatric symptoms? How does brain health lead to degeneration later in life?

Genomics and pleiotropy
in psychiatry

What are the genetic architectures of psychiatric traits and disorders? How do they overlap, and how can we disentangle them?

Methodology of
neuroimaging and genomics

Can we develop new ways to analyze existing datasets, such as neuroimaging, genetics, and xQTL? Can we derive new data altogether?

EXAMPLES OF PAST PROJECTS

R package for vertex-wise neuroimaging analyses

R package for summary-level cross-trait analysis

Population-based neuroimaging cohort of 2,000 individuals spanning early to middle adulthood