Meet the Team

Leadership

Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
My research interests include the study of the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms associated with psychiatry disorders. I investigate how trauma-related events increase the vulnerability to develop mental disorders later in life.
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Members

José Jaime Martínez-Magaña, BSc, MSc, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
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Sheila Nagamatsu, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
As a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, I specialize in psychiatry genetics research. My primary focus is on epigenomic-wide association studies of various conditions, including smoking, opioid addiction, depression, and PTSD. I earned my Ph.D. in genetics and molecular biology from the University of Campinas in Brazil, where I focused on the bioinformatics of industrial yeasts and their application to bioethanol production.
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Diana Núñez
Postdoctoral Associate
Diana L Núñez-Rios has a M.Sc in human genetic and completed her PhD in the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. During her PhD, she assessed rare CNVs (copy number variants) and rare de novo single nucleotide variants in the etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr Núñez joined to Montalvo-Ortiz Lab to investigate epigenetic mechanisms related with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Alumni

Jordan Owen - Student Intern
Adnel I. Figueroa-Jimenez, B.S. - Postbac
Olivia Wen - Student intern

Collaborators

Joining our Team

Postdoc and postgrads positions are available

The Candidate

A successful candidate will be enthusiastic and with strong interest in neuroepigenetics and psychiatric genomics. Expertise in one of the following is required: bioinformatics, statistics, genetic epidemiology, computational biology, and neuroscience. Strong coding and/or programming skills and previous experience in R, UNIX or PYTHON are also required. Postdoc applicants must have, or be about to be awarded, a Ph.D. and/or M.D. degree.

To Apply

Email a cover letter, and up-to-date CV to janitza.montalvo-ortiz@yale.edu. Include the names and contact information for two (2) references.

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