Snævar Sigurðsson
Titill
About
Research specialist at BioMedical Center, University of Iceland
Contact:
E-mail: snaevar@hi.is
Phone: +354 525 5852
Location:
Læknagarður - Lg-456, Vatnsmýrarvegi 16, 101 Reykjavík
RESEARCH PROFILE - PUBLICATION
(work in progress)
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Education/Training
Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA Post-doc 2009-2011 Genomics
Uppsala University, Sweden Post-doc 2006-2009 Genomics
Uppsala University, Sweden Ph.D. 2001-2006 Molecular Medicine
Uppsala University, Sweden M.Sc. 2000-2001 Chemistry
University of Iceland, Iceland B.Sc. 1997-2000 Biochemistry
Employment
University of Iceland, Research Specialist and manager of the Bioinformatics core facility of the Biomedical Center. 2018 -
DeCODE Genetics 2012- 2017. Project leader
Uppsala University September 2011-January 2012. Scientist in the vertebrate genome group.
Post-doctoral fellow at the Broad Institute in Cambridge,
Snævar provide bioinformatic support for researchers at the BMC in genomics, DNA and RNA sequencing etc. My research is focused on how to utilize genomic tools to understand diseases. Latest work focuses on transcriptomics in Breast cancer and breast tissue cell lines.