Kamile Tamusauskaite

Kamile is a PhD student at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Dr Nicholas Clifton, Professor Jonathan Brown, Professor Jonathan Mill, and Associate Professor Eilis Hannon.

Prior to this, she obtained a BSc degree in Biomedical Sciences at Brunel University of London, which included a placement year at the National Research Council of Italy. During her BSc final year, Kamile took on the role of a research assistant at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, where she built theoretical and practical knowledge in next-generation sequencing technologies.

Recently, she graduated from Imperial College London with an MSc degree in Genomic Medicine. As part of her MSc degree, Kamile undertook a research project at the UK Dementia Research Institute at Imperial, during which she developed a keen interest in psychiatric genomics and neuroscience.

Her PhD project is focused on modelling the effects of major schizophrenia risk variants in mice and quantifying their effects on the local synaptic translatome as the brain develops, taking advantage of the most recent techniques for electrophysiological characterisation, ribosome profiling, single-cell transcriptomics, and bioinformatics.