About
Sander Timmer is a PhD candidate at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and Cambridge University.
In Ewan Birney‘s team I am working on understanding genetic variation on both molecular and whole body phenotypes. To this extend I’m working on the following projects:
- With the Molecular Cardiology MRC department at London to obtain robust measurements of the Human skeleton phenotypes and Human heart phenotypes from MRI scans.
- With the Furlong laboratory at EMBL Heidelberg to perform a large-scale expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) study focused on early development of drosophila.
- With several labs from the ENCODE scale-up group (Jason Lieb, Greg Crawford and Vishy Iyer) working on genome wide associations on heritable chromatin signatures (cQTL) measured using FAIRE-chip.
- With Richard Durbin’s at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute working on heritable chromatin signatures (cQTL) measured using CTCF-seq.
Visit my EBI homepage for further information or check my projects page.
In my free time I’m rowing for my college‘s and active as social officer for the boat club. As college representative for the Cambridge Union Society I take part in promoting CUS events and evaluating debates and speaker events.
