Date: Monday, 28 March, 2011
Time: 7-11 PM
Location: Lab111 (Arie Biemondstraat 111, Amsterdam)
Ticket: 20 euros (three course dinner, excluding drinks).
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Abstract
With an estimated world population of >6 billion, there are also 6 billion different personalities, different medical records and different looks. What causes these differences between people? And what is the role of supercomputers and the revolution in genetics in understanding these causes? Danielle Posthuma investigates why people differ in cognitive functions of intelligence and memory, and also why some of us are more prone than others to psychiatric diseases, such as schizophrenia or depression.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Danielle Posthuma is Full Professor in the section Functional Genomics of the VU University Amsterdam, and also affiliated with the department Clinical Genetics of the VU Medical Centre Amsterdam and the Department Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
She studied Clinical Psychology, Physiological Psychology and Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and did a PhD at the Department of Biological Psychology, VU Amsterdam. In 2010 she started the Complex Trait Genetics-group at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research at the VU Amsterdam.
Danielle Posthuma participates in several international research consortia, national grant committees, and editorial boards. In 2005 she was a VIDI laureate of the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2006 she was elected as a member of the ‘Jonge Akademie’ of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. She currently directs the ‘Genetic Cluster Computer’ which is a dedicated supercomputer for genetic analyses.