{"id":1541,"date":"2021-08-31T19:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/?page_id=1541"},"modified":"2021-08-31T19:35:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:35:55","slug":"adriaan-van-der-graaf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/adriaan-van-der-graaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Adriaan van der Graaf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_0110-811x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1543\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_0110-811x1024.jpg 811w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_0110-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_0110-768x970.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/files\/2021\/08\/IMG_0110.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 811px) 100vw, 811px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Adriaan van der Graaf and I&#8217;m a Dutch molecular biologist who has taken a keen interest in statistical approaches to biological data.<br>During my bachelor molecular biology I found it really hard to grasp how statistical inference was done based on the data that was being produced in the lab. So I opted to do a master program that was tailored to learning about statistics and inference from large biological data.<br>During my masters I ended up doing an internship at the Genetics department in Groningen, learning about how we can best predict polygenic scores for celiac disease. After this internship I was offered a PhD in the lab of Cisca Wijmenga under the direct supervision of Serena Sanna,\u00a0 working on how best to prioritize celiac disease genes for follow up in the lab.<br>I learned quickly that I was very interested in causal inference and how we can infer causality based on just observational data. In parallel to the celiac disease work, we developed a new Mendelian randomization technique called MR-link that can better identify causal gene expression in a GWAS locus.<br>During my future work at the Kutalik group, I hope to be able to identify causal relationships that can be integrated into causal networks, to better understand how causal factors influence traits like human disease.<br>In my spare time, I like to do bouldering, and during the corona times, I&#8217;ve taken up 3D printing as a hobby, making a pen plotter and designing and building my own lamps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Adriaan van der Graaf and I&#8217;m a Dutch molecular biologist who has taken a keen interest in statistical approaches to biological data.During my bachelor molecular biology I &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001962,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1541","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/sgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}