Research Interests
Long-read sequencing, neurodegenerative disease, genomics
Biography
Pilar Alvarez Jerez is a PhD student within the long-read team at the Center for Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias (CARD), NIH and the Ryten Lab at UCL. Her current work focuses on using long read technologies to identify the role of structural variants on gene expression and methylation within neurodegenerative diseases, most notably Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Before coming to NIH, Pilar got her BSc in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology from the University of Florida.
