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Dr Sara Ballouz
Senior Lecturer

Dr Sara Ballouz

Education

2013 - PhD, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and the University of New South Wales, Sydney - Australia
2008 - BE Bioinformatics First Class Honours, University of New South Wales, Sydney – Australia
2008 - BSc Genetics, University of New South Wales, Sydney – Australia

Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering

I obtained my PhD from the University of New South Wales and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in 2013, working with Drs Merridee Wouters and Bruno Gaeta. I then moved to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory for my postdoctoral training with Dr Jesse Gillis. In 2020, I started my own group at the Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

My central scientific interest has been to understand the genetic architecture of disease. With data from the genome, transcriptome, epigenome and proteome increasing exponentially, robust tools and practices need to be established to analyse this deluge, in particular if to be applied to personalized medicine.
Location
Garvan

• Transcriptomics (single-cell and bulk)

• Co-expression

• X-linked disorders

• Sex differences in disease

• Meta-analysis

• Personalized medicine

My Research Supervision

Lachlan Gray - eXamining the role of the X chromosome in female autoimmune disease