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Saul Pierotti

Computational biologist - PhD fellow at EMBL-EBI

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Last updated on October 10th, 2024

I am planning to relocate to the Netherlands in October 2025 and looking for a postdoc position in human genetics or analysis and method development for -omics datasets (computational). I am mostly interested in working on projects related to human health or purely methodological, but I would also consider plant and animal genetics labs.

Software:

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birneylab/stitchimpute
Pipeline that uses STITCH for imputing genotypes from low-coverage NGS data in a population
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birneylab/flexlmm
Flexible linear mixed model framework for Genome Wide Association Studies
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birneylab/varexplore
Pipeline for genetic variant prioritization after association studies

Recent work:
FlexLMM: a Nextflow linear mixed model framework for GWAS
Saul Pierotti, Tomas Fitzgerald, Ewan Birney.
Preprint on ArXiv, October 2nd, 2024.
Extensive Gene x Environment interactions in the outbred vertebrate genetics of a standard physiological phenotype
Saul Pierotti, Bettina Welz, Jakob Gierten, Beate Wittbrodt, Philip Watson, Sebastian Stricker, Marcio Ferreira, Fanny Defranoux, Risa Suzuki, Jana Fuß, Tomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Thumberger, Felix Loosli, Joachim Wittbrodt, Ewan Birney.
The Biology of Genomes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2024.
Genotype imputation in F2 crosses of inbred lines
Saul Pierotti, Bettina Welz, Tomas Fitzgerald, Joachim Wittbrodt, Ewan Birney.
Bioinformatics Advances, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2024, vbae107, DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbae107

Research interests:

Genetic and environmental interactions
Genome-wide association studies and complex traits genomics
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Reproducibility in data science
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