Karolina Aberg's Biography

Karolina Aberg, Research Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Dr Aberg earned her PhD degree from Uppsala University, Sweden where she studied the genetics of schizophrenia and did postdoctoral training in statistical genetics at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA. In 2008, Aberg joined the Center for Biomarker Research and Personalized Medicine (CBRPM) at Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA. At CBRPM she helped to establish the center’s laboratory, which currently is fully equipped for large-scale methylation investigations including a SOLiD next-generation sequencing platform, a targeted pyrosequencing platform and robotics for efficient high-throughput sample preparation. Aberg’s research interests are focused on the genetics and epigenetics of the development of psychiatric and behavioral phenotypes and treatment response. Her research includes development of analysis and pipelines for methylome-wide association studies (MWAS). These tools were recently applied to a MWAS of 1500 schizophrenia case-control samples.