Hello everyone. I would love to get to know you a bit better. We often focus on datasets, analyses, and data sharing, and it is easy to forget what drives those discussions, which is: what are we studying? Even a brief exchange could spark ideas, collaborations, questions, suggestions that help our colleagues and bring us closer as a community.
I will start. Like many of you, I am not working on only one project and two main topics are currently on my desk.
- Epidemiology: I am analyzing the LARGE-PD dataset to identify environmental risk factors for PD and to estimate their Population Attributable Fractions. To my knowledge, few studies in our field have applied this epidemiological framing to such data.
- Subtyping: My PhD focuses on identifying PD subtypes using biological data genomics, transcriptomics, and neuroimaging across PPMI, PDBP, and STEADY-PD III. Our preliminary results show that genetic information can delineate reproducible PD subtypes associated with distinct longitudinal progression across cohorts. The next step is to write the manuscript which, as you all know, can be the hardest part.
And you, my fellow colleagues. Tell us a bit about what you are working on!