“Nothing can survive without math”

After I graduated I started to work in a molecular genetic lab, and I was definitely feeling a little “dumb”.. I could not remember the biology stuff I study during the high school.. what the hell is a chromosome? a gene? a nucleotide??? Mitocondrial DNA seemed to me a “bad word”.. Then I started to go deeper and deeper in the field, knowing about statistical genetics: the wedding.

I studied maths during college.. computational algebra, topology, statistics, math applied to physic, story of math(Al-kuwaritzmi was my favourite part!)… a lot of different aspects related to calculations and idea of numbers. But what I regret is that nobody never told me that math and genetics were married (Mathematicians could say: “Nothing can survive without math”, but anyway..).

All the theory on statistics, analysis, programming found a reason to exist: we can use all those infinite (but still numerable) formulas to calculate the probability that one particular mutation is associated to a disease. Do that for more than 2million mutation in more than 30 thousand individuals.. I had to forget about using paper and pen to write calculations.. programming!! If , else, while, and foreach are now included on my vocabulary, as well as SNP, haplotype, copy number variations and many, many others.

I learned how life can change, how we grow studying, how big is the science’s world. I just know a small part of it… if you are curious to know about my research, click on some of the link and … good luck!!

On a side note, I have also been active in demonstrations against the Italian laws, intended to further reduce money for education and research. Follow the link on the left menu for more information – but be aware it is all in Italian..

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Merry Christmas 🎄 from Sanna lab to you!
We are looking forward to 2024 - more people will join and more data will arrive!
Exciting times ahead 🕺 💃

🏆🏆Two prizes in two days. This has been a fantastic week already and today is also my birthday 🫣
Monday 13 prize in Rome for dedication to research while maintaining values such as fairness, kindness
Tuesday 14 prize in Cagliari for top women in science from Sardinia (Italy)

Today, the flagship paper of the @uk_biobank Pharma Proteomics Project was published in @Nature.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06592-6

The results are fully browsable at http://ukb-ppp.gwas.eu.

The underlying protein measures will become available to UKB researchers in the next few weeks.

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