London Calling 2026 - Speakers
Speakers
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Brynja Sigurpálsdóttir
- Job title
- Institution
- Amgen deCODE genetics, Iceland
- Biography
Brynja Sigurpálsdóttir is a research scientist at Amgen deCODE genetics. She studied Biomedical Engineering at Reykjavík University, earned an MSc in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at ETH Zurich in 2019, then joined Amgen deCODE Genetics and pursued a PhD on long-read DNA methylation sequencing analysis. Her research focuses on integrating genetic and epigenetic variation in large-scale human genomics datasets, methylation profiling, and epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS).
- Recent publications
The UK Biobank Whole-Genome Sequencing Consortium. Whole-genome sequencing of 490,640 UK Biobank participants. Nature 645(8081):692–701 (2025).
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09272-9Sigurpálsdóttir, B.D. et al. A comparison of methods for detecting DNA methylation from long-read sequencing of human genomes. Genome Biology 25:Article 69 (2024).
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-024-03207-9Stefansson, O.A. et al. The correlation between CpG methylation and gene expression is driven by sequence variants. Nature Genetics 56:1624–1631 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-0185-2
Talks at this conference
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