González-Peñas Javier

I received my PhD in Psychiatric Genetics in 2016 at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, studying the role of regulatory genetic variation of predisposition to Schizophrenia (SCZ). During my doctorate, I was awarded a national competitive grant to complete my academic training with a fellowship at Joseph Gogos laboratory at New York State Psychiatric Institute (Columbia University), where I contributed to study RNA-seq expression differences in SCZ brain samples. After completion of my PhD PhD I joined the Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM), as a postdoctoral researcher, at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department of the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón (Madrid, Spain). There, I have worked at common and rare predisposing variation to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and SCZ. My main current interests are the identification of the different genetic and environmental factors that underlie the distinct clinical phenotypes that are observed in the clinical practice, and the interaction between environmental conditions (such as socioeconomic status, traumatic events, loneliness perception) and genetic factors in the onset of psychotic disorders. Indeed, I am particularly interested in genetic variation across genomic regions with epigenetic activity in the context of neurodevelopmental disorders and their heterogeneity.