Dr Derek Morris
Derek is interested in identifying the risk genes for psychiatric disorders, which will help uncover the biology of these complex disorders and in time lead to improved diagnostics, treatments and patient care.
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Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium. Biological insights from 108 schizophrenia-associated genetic loci. Nature. 2014 511(7510):421-7.
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Kenny EM, Cormican P, Furlong S, Heron E, Kenny G, Fahey C, Kelleher E, Ennis S, Tropea D, Anney R, Corvin AP, Donohoe G, Gallagher L, Gill M, Morris DW. Excess of rare novel loss-of-function variants in synaptic genes in schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. 19(8):872-9.
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Morris DW, Pearson RD, et al. An inherited duplication at the gene p21 Protein-Activated Kinase 7 (PAK7) is a risk factor for psychosis. Human Molecular Genetics, 23 (12), 2014, p3316-26.
Miss Rosa Spencer-Tansley
Rosa is an MRes student at Bournemouth University. She completed her BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences at Bournemouth University in 2014. She is particularly interested in the clinical application of genetic research, and is currently researching Psychiatric Genetic Counselling.
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Rosa attended WCPG2014 through BU Fusion Funding and was in Vancouver in January 2015 funded b BU Global Horizons fund.
Grace Brewer
Grace is a Bournemouth University Multimedia Journalism Student and helped create a media package for the project.
Dr Lisha Ma
Lisha trained in medicine pefore her PhD
She has worked on fruit flies for over ten years. She led the functional genetics strand for this project.