Projects

We investigate telomeric fragments in cell-free DNA in blood plasma in disease. We aim to develop novel diagnostic approaches to identify and monitor disease status in cancers and chronic disorders through liquid biopsies.

We develop bioinformatics algorithms and tools to explore the temporal dynamics of microbiome communities in response to environmental perturbations and treatments. We seek to understand the mechanisms through which the direct effects of perturbations propagate via microbial interaction networks, leading to changes in microbiome composition over time.Through application of these techniques we study antibiotic resistance in complex microbial communities, the impact of pesticides on bee gut microbiome ...

Long-term environmental exposure to metals leads to epigenetic changes and may increase risks to human health. The human epidemiologic and the toxicologic animal model studies provide strong evidence of metal exposure related DNA methylation changes, and, consequently alterations in gene expression, in metabolic, genetic and signal transduction pathways and their functions. The current study is designed to investigate genome wide DNA methylation and transcriptomic changes induced by human chronic ...

This project focuses on studies around brain disorders and ageing.